Police are investigating intentional release of bed bugs at Walmart – The Media Hq

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The police in Pennsylvania are investigating a deliberate release of bed bugs in a Walmart.

A manager in the Washington Township store contacted the authorities after an employee discovered a closed pill bottle with live insects in the mens dressing room on Thursday, Go Erie reported.

The container was hidden in a boys jacket that was for sale in the store.

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After both the coat and the bottle had been thrown away, Walmart contacted hygiene company Ecolab, which the next day sent a technician to scan the store.

The technician found a number of bugs crawling around the fitting room and confirmed that they were bed bugs.

Then another Walmart employee found a second closed bottle on Saturday, this time at a belt display, with a number of dead bed bugs.

The police collected that bottle to analyze for fingerprints and combs images of store surveillance; no arrests have yet been made.

I hope its not a joke from an employee. It sounds as if two separate employees found two separate bottles two days in a row, trooper Cindy Schick told the New York Times.

We have not had other bed bug incidents in our area, she added.

As their name suggests, bed bugs are small parasites that usually live in mattresses and bed frames and feed on sleeping people by biting and sucking their blood. However, they can be transferred to clothing or luggage.

They do not spread disease, but their bites cause itchy stretch marks and therefore sleep problems. They can go without food for months and the longer an infection is not checked, the harder it is to get rid of it.

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