Collingsworth authorities affirm threat as hoax

By Bev Odom on Thursday, April 18, 2024
  • Lingering fog and cloudy skies add to the eeriness of the threating phone call that came into the Collingsworth County Sheriff’s Office at 9:02 a.m. Monday, April 15. By 12:30 p.m. only a few vehicles remained at the courthouse as employees had departed for their regular 12-1 p.m. lunch hour. The Red River Sun/Bev Odom
    Lingering fog and cloudy skies add to the eeriness of the threating phone call that came into the Collingsworth County Sheriff’s Office at 9:02 a.m. Monday, April 15. By 12:30 p.m. only a few vehicles remained at the courthouse as employees had departed for their regular 12-1 p.m. lunch hour. The Red River Sun/Bev Odom
    WELLINGTON – At 9:02 a.m. Monday, April 15, Collingsworth County Sheriff ’s Office (CCSO) received its first phone call from an untraceable cell phone number using a talk-and-text device app, explained Collingsworth County Sheriff Kent Riley.“Although we didn’t anticipate any real threat by the caller against anyone, we took purely precautionary measures on the CCSO’s part,” ...

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