Liberty County man facing charges after making bomb threat to an agricultural inspection station

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FANNING SPRINGS, Fla. (WCJB) - Charles Aikens, 58, of Liberty County is facing charges for threatening to blow up an agricultural inspection station.

The Florida Department of Agriculture made the arrest after an investigation.


He faces second-degree charges for making a false bomb threat.


Aikens is being held in the Wakulla County Jail, where he was already being held for an unrelated crime prior to these new charges.


According to agents, Aikens called the Gilchrist County Sheriff’s Office on March 29 threatening to blow up the inspection station in Fanning Springs and kill the people inside.


A warrant was executed last week.

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