RIVERDALE — A former Lowe's employee was arrested Tuesday after somebody called a Lowe's store in Riverdale and said there was a bomb in the building.

Investigators traced the call to Kenneth Gill, 60, through his phone number, the Riverdale Police Department posted on social media.

Around 10:40 a.m., a man called the store at 4155 S. Riverdale Road and said there was a bomb inside before hanging up the phone, police said. The building was evacuated, but bomb detection units didn't find any bombs inside.

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Gill "was upset about recently being terminated from Lowe's and made the threat because of being terminated," Riverdale police said in a statement.

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