LITTLE RIVER, SC (WBTW) – The Horry County Police Department reports a bomb threat made at a Seacoast medical facility Monday afternoon has been resolved without any injuries.
Lt. Raul Denis, spokesman for the Horry County Police Department, confirms officers responded to the Seacoast Medical Plaza, located at 3980 E. Hwy. 9 in Little River, just before 1:30 p.m. Monday. Police were called after someone claimed they had a bomb, according to Lt. Denis.
A 27-year-old man from Sunset Beach, NC, suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), was “experiencing an episode and claimed that he had brought a bomb into the building and that there was another bomb in his car,” Lt. Denis explains.
A police report details how the man “frequently hallucinated, was not aware of person, place, time, or event, and periodically questioned if there was a bomb on his person.” The report also documents that the man had not slept for 72 hours and made reference to wanting to be back in the U.S. Marine Corps because when he was deployed, fellow Marines stood post, which gave him security of comfort so he could sleep.
Officials say the building was evacuated, but clarify the medical office evacuated was not the McLeod Seacoast Hospital, but rather a building in the Seacoast Medical Plaza near the hospital. Horry County Bomb Squad investigated the building and the car.
Horry County Police reported Monday evening at 6:06 p.m. on the department’s Twitter account that the bomb threat was “resolved peacefully and without damage.”
Bomb Threat at Seacoast Medical Plaza resolved peacefully and without damage. Details will be made public as they become available.
— Horry County PD (@horrycountypd) January 11, 2016
Police say the man was taken into emergency protective custody and transported to a local hospital for evaluation. No criminal charges are expected in this case, reports Lt. Denis.