Liberty County man charged with making bomb threat against inspection station

Karl Etters
Tallahassee Democrat

A Liberty County man is being charged with calling in a bomb threat against an agricultural inspection station last month.

Law enforcement officials with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services charges Charles L. Aikens with making a false bomb threat, a second-degree felony. Aikens was charged while being held in the Wakulla County Jail on unrelated charges of having his bond revoked from a January 2021 case. 

FDACS said on March 29 he called in the threat to Gilchrist County Sheriff’s Office dispatchers. Aikens, according to investigators, said he was going to “blow up the agricultural center” located in Fanning Springs.

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GCSO was able to trace the call back to Aikens, of Liberty County. Last week, Aikens was issued an arrest warrant, served on him in the Wakulla County Jail.

FDACS operates 23 inspection stations spread across the state where law enforcement officers inspect vehicles and trailers for plant and animal pests, disease and unsafe foods in an effort to prevent them from entering Florida.

Contact Karl Etters at ketters@tallahassee.com or @KarlEtters on Twitter.

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