Crime & Safety
Affton Company Receives Bomb Threat
Kerry Ingredients is across Heege Road from Tower Tee.
According to St. Louis County Police, someone called Kerry Ingredients, in Affton, and threatened that “a bomb will go off within an hour and a half.”
Fox2 News reported that it happened around 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, and that the building was evacuated. St. Louis County Bomb and Arson Squad searched the building.
At 4 p.m. one St. Louis County officer was outside the complex. He said officers were still inside. From the outside, there was no apparent damage to the building.
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