{"id":275321,"date":"2026-05-18T16:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/275321\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:33:08","slug":"police-officers-accuse-virginia-man-of-bomb-threat-at-publix-in-plantation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/275321\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officers accuse Virginia man of bomb threat at Publix in Plantation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 18, 2026 at 12:04 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/C5RPAZANCRCTBMZ4RQG7YHKZBI.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Police officers arrested Jaemeson Barefield on Sunday in Plantation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PLANTATION, Fla.  \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Corrections booked Jaemeson Barefield, who was born in Virginia and lives in Plantation, at the Broward County Main Jail, records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI didn\u2019t threaten anybody at any Publix,\u201d Barefield told police officers, according to the arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThere was a bomb on the side of the store,\u201d the witness said he heard the man say over the phone, according to the arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The witness added, according to police, that the caller also said, \u201cIt wasn\u2019t very nice what [the store manager] did to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mariana Ortiz contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 18, 2026 at 12:04 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandPolice officers arrested Jaemeson Barefield on Sunday in Plantation. PLANTATION, Fla. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-275321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}