Bomb threat that cleared out Pines water park tied to other swatting calls, cops say
A Pembroke Pines water park was cleared out over the weekend after a bogus bomb threat was phoned in, according to the Pembroke Pines Police Department.
Detectives say the swatting call could be tied to similar threats received in several cities across Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
Officers responded to a “threatening call” at C.B. Smith’s Paradise Cove Water Park, located at 900 N. Flamingo Road, around 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 2, the agency shared in an Instagram post.
A police scanner notification received by the Pembroke Pines News on May 2 details the call as a “bomb threat received at CB Smith Park.”
PPPD evacuated the aquatic playground as a precaution and did not locate any threats, though traffic in and out of the park was hindered while police cleared the area.
Paradise Cove reopened the following day, returning to its usual hours of operation.
Police believe the hoax call was “related to several swatting calls affecting the Broward County area” on May 2, the department said.
Around 5 a.m. on Saturday, the Plantation Police Department “received a bomb threat for Plantation General Hospital from an unknown male caller,” the agency posted on social media platform X.
A bomb threat was also phoned in for a Miramar Walmart, located at 1800 S. University Drive, around 4 p.m., police scanners show.
Per CBS Miami, similar calls were received in several Miami-Dade agencies, including the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, Miami Police Department and Doral Police Department, the news station reported on May 2.
Pembroke Pines police say an investigation into who phoned the threats remained underway as of May 4.
