A reported bomb threat cleared part of the busy Levittown Town Center shopping center on Wednesday.
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LevittownNow.com readers said Tullytown Borough officers began telling people to leave stores around 6 p.m.
Fire police and police cleared customers from the Five Below and the Ross. They then blocked off the area, according to readers.
Sources told this news organization the police activity was due to a bomb threat at one of the stores.
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Officers and a K-9 unit from Northampton Township searched the shopping center and no explosives were located, the sources said.
The scene had calmed by 9 p.m.
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Retail stores in the Levittown area have dealt with a number of bogus bomb threats over the past year. There was no word if the incidents are connected.
A request for comment was set to Tullytown Borough police.
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