An employee working inside a Target store in Bergen County is accused of calling in a bomb threat to the store while working.
Jossi Duarte, 22, of West New York was charged with second-degree false public alarm and third-degree making terroristic threats.
Edgewater police responded to the Target store in Edgewater Commons at 1:41 p.m. on Saturday after receiving a phone call reporting a bomb threat, police said.
Authorities evacuated the store and cleared the building of any threats with the assistance of the Bergen County Sheriff’s Department K-9 unit and Edgewater Fire Department, police said.
Edgewater police later discovered that Duarte, a sales representative for AT&T working inside the Target, was caught on the store’s surveillance cameras leaving her post and calling in the bomb threat using her cellphone from a nearby aisle, authorities said.
Duarte left the store when authorities evacuated the building and returned to finish her shift when the store was re-opened about an hour later, police said.
She was arrested at her home in West New York around 10:30 p.m. Saturday night and was taken to the Bergen County Jail, police said.
Duarte did not have an attorney listed in court records on Monday.
