GIBRALTAR, Mich. — Investigators have identified a suspect in a bomb threat that emptied Carlson High School in Gibraltar on Election Day, when the building was serving as a polling place, and the case is now with the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office for a charging review.
The threat came in Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 3, at the school on West Jefferson Avenue, which hosts voters from Brownstown Township precincts 8 and 11. Officers cleared the building and sent canine teams through it.
Voting never fully stopped. Workers rounded up generators, tables and chairs and set the booths up in the parking lot, Brownstown police said, and ballots were being cast back inside by 6:30 p.m.
Officers from Gibraltar and Brownstown Township and deputies from the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office answered the call, joined by several other area departments. City officials said the school was found to be safe.
Students were not in class Tuesday because of the election. Brownstown Township police said they treat every threat seriously and called the safety of voters and poll workers a top priority.
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