bomb threat

Lafayette Police are responding to a "suspicious circumstance" at Walmart on Pinhook Road. Photos posted on social media show employees gathered in the rear of the parking lot furthest from the store.

Lafayette Police Department Spokesman Paul Mouton says multiple agencies are on the scene as a precaution as they are making sure that all the students are safe.

Troopers arrived to find a man in a car saying he had a bomb.

Lafayette Police Corporal Paul Mouton says they have cleared the bomb threat at the Acadiana Mall and it is now open to customers.

A federal grand jury indicted a Lafayette man for allegedly making a bomb threat and attempting to rob a bank, according to U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley.

At least one person has reportedly been arrested for for allegedly phoning in the bomb threat that last week shut down the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

At least one person has reportedly been arrested for for allegedly phoning in the bomb threat that last week shut down the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

UL Lafayette officials say the school is back to normal now after the investigation into a suspicious package found that the device was not dangerous.

Police say they are searching the school as a precaution.

Earlier this morning Broussard Middle School administrators were informed that a student had written on a bathroom stall’s wall that there was a “pressure-cooker bomb” on the school’s campus.

On Monday, the LSU campus was evacuated due to a bomb threat. According to our sister station KPEL 96.5, an arrest has been made in connection with that bomb threat. An LSU Police Department spokesperson says that the suspect, William Bouvay, 42, of Baton Rouge, has been arrested and charged with communicating false information of a planned bombing. Bouvay is not an LSU student.