GARDINER — A bomb threat that closed the Walgreens in Gardiner for a few hours Friday was determined to be a hoax, police said.

Around 12:45 p.m., an employee at the 9 Spring St. store reported that the store had received a bomb threat via telephone, the Gardiner Police Department said in a statement issued Friday night.

The store was evacuated and locked down while police investigated, the statement said. The location was closed for about two hours before police deemed that it was safe and the threat was a hoax.

A similar hoax threat was reported Friday at a Walgreens in Hampden, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesperson Shannon Moss said in an email Friday evening. State public safety resources were not requested at either incident, Moss added.

“The safety of our patients, customers and team members is our priority,” a Walgreens spokesperson, Fraser Engerman, said in an email. “We are cooperating with law enforcement in their investigation.”

Gardiner police are asking anyone with information about the incident there to call the department at 207-624-7076, ext. 9.

Central Maine Managing Editor Jessica Lowell contributed to this report.