In Marine City, police are investigating a dangerous swatting call that sent heavily armed officers to a South Water Street office building Sunday evening. Dispatchers got the threat from someone claiming he was holding hostages at gunpoint near the Riviera Restaurant and demanding a fifty-thousand-dollar ransom. Crews evacuated nearby businesses and used drones and tactical teams to search the building, clearing it around nine p.m. Nothing was found. Police say the caller’s story was fake but serious, and Chief Jim Healsip warns such hoaxes put lives at risk.
Reporting for WGRT – JP bZet
