PLANTATION, Fla. — Police officers arrested a 59-year-old man on Sunday in Plantation after accusing him of calling in a bomb threat to a Publix supermarket.

Corrections booked Jaemeson Barefield, who was born in Virginia and lives in Plantation, at the Broward County Main Jail, records show.

“I didn’t threaten anybody at any Publix,” Barefield told police officers, according to the arrest report.

The alleged threat from his cell phone that prompted an evacuation and a police search was on March 21 at the customer service desk at 1181 South University Drive, in Plantation, according to the arrest report.

“There was a bomb on the side of the store,” the witness said he heard the man say over the phone, according to the arrest report.

The witness added, according to police, that the caller also said, “It wasn’t very nice what [the store manager] did to him.”

Barefield faced a charge of filing a false report regarding the planting or placing of a bomb, explosive, or weapon of mass destruction. His bond was $20,000.

Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mariana Ortiz contributed to this report.

Police officers accuse Virginia man of bomb threat at Publix in Plantation

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