LUFKIN, Texas — The Lufkin Police Department responded to a possible bomb threat at the Family Crisis Center Thrift Store off Whitehouse Drive near Walmart.
According to the Lufkin Police Department, Charles Ouchley, an area homeless man who police say is known to frequent the area, came the store at 4 p.m. to shop. Clerks told them saying he had to leave his backpack with them while he shopped.
Then, police say, he told clerks he had a bomb in the backpack. The store was immediately evacuated, leaving only Ouchley inside.
Ouchley later walked outside with the backpack still inside where police detained and later arrested him.
ATF agents arrived on the scene and searched the backpack. They did not find a bomb. Ouchley remains in the Angelina County Jail.
