Updated at 7:25 p.m. to add the name of the suspect and charges
BELVEDERE — A man is in custody after making a bomb threat at a Belvedere gas station Thursday.
Around 3:30 p.m. Thursday, witnesses on the scene reported a man had walked into the Circle K on Edgefield Road and said there was a bomb in his car, then left.
Richmond County Sheriff’s Office bomb squad responded to the scene.
Christopher Lee Bragg, 41, was arrested and charged with conveying false information regarding attempted use of a destructive device and hoax device or replica of destructive device or detonator.
At 5:38 p.m. Capt. Eric Abdullah with the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that a bomb threat was made, but said one person was in custody.
“No bomb was found,” he said in a text message.
Bragg was convicted of making terroristic threats in 2020 and got a sentence the next year of five months in prison along with over four years of probation. He was arrested again in August 2021 for an order to show cause in Superior Court and later released. At the time, he had a listed address on the 2000 block of Hephzibah McBean Road in Hephzibah.
