{"id":180081,"date":"2026-04-30T09:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180081\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:11:20","slug":"bomb-threat-on-bathroom-stall-of-new-philadelphia-walmart-prompts-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180081\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb threat on bathroom stall of New Philadelphia Walmart prompts evacuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; A bomb threat written on a bathroom stall in the New Philadelphia Walmart prompted an evacuation on Wednesday morning, police confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The New Philadelphia Police Department said officers were sent to the reported bomb threat at 231 Bluebell Dr. NW after a message about a bomb written on the wall of the handicap-accessible stall in the women\u2019s bathroom was found at 10:10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The store was evacuated \u201cout of an abundance of caution\u201d and Canton Police Department bomb-detection K-9 teams were called to the scene, according to NPPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">K-9s and police officers conducted a sweep of the store, but NPPD confirmed no suspicious items were found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Walmart was reopened to the public at approximately 12:05 p.m. after the search was complete, NPPD said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">NPPD stated the investigation into who wrote the threat is still active.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Call NPPD Det. Dorsey at 330-343-4488 if you have any information on this case.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Walmart (file photo)\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/YQET4AVIHNG6DCDZRXU64LRZMI.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"542\" \/>Walmart (file photo)(WSOC via CNN Newsource)<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WOIO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; A bomb threat written on a bathroom stall in the New Philadelphia Walmart&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13450,17114,28006,24800,28766,69,71,70,206,23258],"class_list":["post-180081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-bathroom","tag-bathroom-stall","tag-bomb","tag-bomb-threat","tag-new-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-police","tag-walmart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}