ALABAMA (LOOTPRESS) – Authorities in Alabama have arrested a man accused of threatening to blow up an Ulta Beauty store in Opelika.
Timothy Vincent Lincoln, 42, of Brass, Louisiana, was charged with making first-degree terroristic threats. According to a probable cause affidavit filed in Lee County District Court, Mr. Lincoln was outside the Ulta Beauty store on Enterprise Drive in the Tigertown shopping complex around 10 a.m. Saturday when an employee is said to have heard him speak. Stand up. ”
The employee immediately alerted his colleagues and urged them to evacuate the store. Opelika Police Department officials responded to the scene, but no explosives were found, and the store resumed normal operations shortly thereafter.
In a strange twist, Lincoln’s mug shot shows his face covered in red and blue markings, including a lighter blue on his beard and nose, which reduces the size of his face. A red line is drawn on the part. Police did not release details about how he obtained the items to extract himself or his intentions behind the act.
Lincoln is currently being held in the Lee County Detention Center on $100,000 bail. If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. Ulta Beauty has banned him from its stores, and no attorney is listed for him at this time.