Detroit bridge now open after fake threat
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July 18, 2012, Wednesday
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A BOGUS bomb threat forced the closure of the Ambassador Bridge for several hours, the second such threat to a major crossing connecting Detroit to Canada in recent days.
Detroit police said a 911 call came in around 7:20pm on Monday to authorities on the United States side of the Ambassador Bridge that links Detroit with Windsor, Ontario. The caller said a bomb would go off in 10 minutes along the busy freight crossing, police Inspector Don Johnson said at a news conference on Monday night.
The call prompted authorities in both cities to halt all truck and car traffic across the bridge, said Detroit police spokeswoman Sergeant Eren Stephens.
The bridge was reopened around 1am yesterday after security sweeps failed to turn up any incendiary devices, Stephens said.
Traffic was backed up when the bridge re-opened early yesterday, but was clear by rush hour, according to the Michigan Department of Transportation.
Just four days earlier, a similar threat was phoned in to Windsor authorities that lead to a four-hour closure of the Detroit Windsor Tunnel, a busy border crossing beneath the Detroit River connecting the two border cities. No explosives were found.
At the time, police said a man had called from a street pay phone and warned of a bomb on the Canadian side of the tunnel. Johnson said the call on Monday came in from somewhere in Detroit, though other details weren't immediately released.
Detroit police said a 911 call came in around 7:20pm on Monday to authorities on the United States side of the Ambassador Bridge that links Detroit with Windsor, Ontario. The caller said a bomb would go off in 10 minutes along the busy freight crossing, police Inspector Don Johnson said at a news conference on Monday night.
The call prompted authorities in both cities to halt all truck and car traffic across the bridge, said Detroit police spokeswoman Sergeant Eren Stephens.
The bridge was reopened around 1am yesterday after security sweeps failed to turn up any incendiary devices, Stephens said.
Traffic was backed up when the bridge re-opened early yesterday, but was clear by rush hour, according to the Michigan Department of Transportation.
Just four days earlier, a similar threat was phoned in to Windsor authorities that lead to a four-hour closure of the Detroit Windsor Tunnel, a busy border crossing beneath the Detroit River connecting the two border cities. No explosives were found.
At the time, police said a man had called from a street pay phone and warned of a bomb on the Canadian side of the tunnel. Johnson said the call on Monday came in from somewhere in Detroit, though other details weren't immediately released.
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