Bomb threat at Cardington Yutaka halts production

Mon­day, Oct. 1, 2012 — An early morn­ing bomb threat at Card­ing­ton Yutaka Tech­nolo­gies in Card­ing­ton shut pro­duc­tion down for more than six hours as offi­cials inves­ti­gated and search the premises.

Yutaka offi­cials and law enforce­ment offi­cers wait out­side as inves­ti­ga­tors per­form a sweep of the build­ing early Monday.

A sim­i­lar threat was made Sep­tem­ber 7 that yielded no sus­pi­cious devices. Today’s mes­sage, found dur­ing third shift, con­tained more spe­cific infor­ma­tion, said Mor­row County Sher­iff Steve Bren­ne­man, who was noti­fied at 6:35 a.m. Employ­ees were evac­u­ated and law enforce­ment offi­cials paired up in teams with Yutaka asso­ciates to per­form a sweep of the build­ings. A sus­pi­cious pack­age was located in a locker room and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office sent the Bomb Squad, who deter­mined the pack­age to be non-threatening, con­tain­ing parts from the premises.

Employ­ees began going back into the plant about 12:30 p.m. Also assist­ing at the scene were Card­ing­ton Police, a Columbus-based ATF agent, and EMA Direc­tor Joe Edwards. The Card­ing­ton Fired Dept. and Squad were on standby and the Red Cross was on hand to pro­vide warm drinks and refreshments.

Card­ing­ton Yutaka Tech­nolo­gies, Inc. is an auto­mo­tive parts sup­plier for Honda of Amer­ica Man­u­fac­tur­ing, pri­mar­ily torque con­vert­ers, cat­alytic con­vert­ers, and exhaust sys­tems. Yutaka Tech­nolo­gies also has plants in Alabama and South Carolina.

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