The Liberty County Sheriff’s Office along with federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives responded to a possible bomb threat at the Target Distribution Center Monday shortly before 9 a.m. 

A security employee reported the threat after a note was found saying there was a bomb in the building. Authorities evacuated the employees and swept the building but no bomb was found. The incident is under investigation. The employees returned to work and no injuries were reported.

One person killed in single vehicle wreck Saturday

A man was killed in a single car wreck Saturday in the 3000 block of Briar Bay Road in Riceboro. According to Sgt. David Laff of the Georgia State Patrol, the man was killed when their vehicle left the roadway striking a tree and bursting into flames shortly before 8 p.m.

Laff said the male adult driver was driving north in a 1991 Chevy Caprice when his vehicle ran off the road causing his passenger side tires to hit the soft shoulder. The driver overcorrected causing the vehicle to rotate plowing into several trees bursting into flames.

Account to Liberty County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Commander, Dennis Poulson, when deputies arrived the vehicle was engulfed in flames and the deputies were unable to render aid to the man.

The Riceboro Volunteer Fire and Rescue arrived on scene and was able to extinguish the fire.

The Georgia State Patrol will be the lead investigating agency.