[VIDEO] National Corvette Museum is a Victim of Hostage Hoax Call

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National Corvette Museum is a Victim of Hostage Hoax Call

If it was an April Fool’s Day joke, it was a day early – and not very funny, either.

A caller told Bowling Green Police on Tuesday, March 31 that he was holding five hostages at the National Corvette Museum, had stabbed one of them already, and demanded $50,000 in cash or he would kill everyone in the museum.

He called back minutes later and told police a bomb would go off in the NCM if the money wasn’t delivered within an hour.

Fortunately, when police called the museum, they found out it was news to officials there and none of the threats had actually occurred.

Ronnie Ward of the Bowling Green Police Department said police traced the numbers as far back as they could through the phone company, but they dead ended in a computer generated telephone number “so we weren’t able to track the telephone number at all.”

The threat forced the evacuation of more than 50 employees at the NCM, and police are still on the hunt for the suspect, who faces felony charges of terroristic threatening second degree.


Source:
WBKO.com

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