Crazy Guy Attacks Grand Haven, MI Coast Guard Station
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[url]http://woodtv.com/2015/02/08/attack-at-coast-guard-station-in-grand-haven/[/url]
[quote]GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (WOOD) – An evacuation at the Grand Haven Coast Guard station and a shelter-in-place order for residents at a nearby condo building have been lifted after police determined a bomb threat that was made Sunday morning was unfounded.[/quote]
[quote]Just after 6 a.m. Sunday, [B]a 34-year-old man driving a Dodge Ram pickup truck crashed into the gate at the Grand Haven Coast Guard station[/B], which is located at 601 S. Harbor Drive just east of the lakeshore, Hawke said. [B]He then broke into the station and assaulted a Coast Guard member who suffered minor injuries[/B]. Members of the Coast Guard were able to contain the man until Grand Haven Public Safety officers arrived at the scene and arrested him, according to Hawke.
[B]Prior to the crash, the suspect had called the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office, saying he was “going to blow up the Grand Haven station,”[/B] police said.
Due to that bomb threat, police initially investigated the incident is as an “act of domestic terrorism” because it was an attack on a federal building. However, no links to terrorism or a terrorist organization were found, Hawke said.[/quote]
[quote]The FBI, the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and Tobacco and Michigan State Police also responded to the incident.[/quote]
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Oh shit. I used to live near there, and my dad worked at that station.
Glad they got the guy and nobody was seriously injured.
Of all places why would anyone choose a coast guard station?
[QUOTE=AJ10017;47105208]Of all places why would anyone choose a coast guard station?[/QUOTE]
Sounds like it was a local nutjob, probably chose the target out of convenience.
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