Arrest made in Thanksgiving bomb scare

STAFF REPORT~ 12/7/2011

Maricopa County Sheriff's Office deputies on Saturday arrested a Walmart employee in connection with a Thanksgiving day bomb scare that closed Cave Creek's Walmart for seven hours.
Joseph Granillo, 39, was arrested early Saturday morning. Granillo faces felony charges of knowingly giving a false impression and misconduct of a simulated explosive, according to a Sheriff's Office statement.
The Walmart Supercenter at 34399 N. Cave Creek Road closed shortly after 4 p.m. on Thanksgiving after an assistant manager found a suspicious device in an employee refrigerator. About 20 customers and 20 employees were evacuated.
Employees returned to work at 9:30 p.m. and the store reopened for business at 11 p.m. after the Sheriff's Office conducted a sweep of the building with bomb sniffing dogs and declared it safe. MCSO turned the device over to a bomb squad, which determined that the device was not an explosive.
Walmart gave its security camera footage to the Sheriff’s Office.
Granillo is being held at Maricopa County Jail on $27,000 bond.