Members of the Pittsburgh Steelers were evacuated from a movie theater Wednesday night after of a bomb threat interrupted a private screening of a new DVD of last month's Super Bowl victory.
Authorities evacuated the Loews Cineplex at The Waterfront in Homestead after the threat was received from an anonymous caller to 911, Homestead Police Chief Chris Deasy said.
"It said there was a bomb that was going to go off at a Loews theater," Deasy said.
The caller had a male voice and made no reference to the Steelers, Deasy added.
Minutes after the call at 8:03 p.m, police escorted the players out of the theater and spent about an hour-and-a-half searching the premises using at least one bomb-sniffing dog. They found no evidence of a bomb.
An estimated 1,000 moviegoers were also told to leave the cineplex.
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