By Gus Burns | fburns@mlive.com
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on April 09, 2014 at 7:05 PM, updated April 09, 2014 at 8:05 PM
DETROIT, MI -- The mysterious 911 call Detroit police received Tuesday sounds like the plot for a Quentin Tarantino film.
A man with a Russian accent called 911 twice Tuesday morning. He sounded distressed, police say. He said he'd been kidnapped, stabbed and was being held captive in an abandoned Detroit warehouse. Trying to help the dispatcher locate him, the man mentioned a river and street names that could have been Jefferson and Chene.
Police say the caller claimed to be a Russian soldier on vacation in Detroit*. And he called from a Russian phone number, Detroit Police Chief James Craig revealed Wednesday.
What occurred after the call was an epic manhunt. As many as 60 law enforcers from the Detroit Police Department and partner agencies spent the next 10 hours searching 35 warehouses from the former Packard plant south to the Detroit River.
The search was called off Tuesday night, but Craig said the investigation is still pending.
It's unclear if it was a hoax, or real.
"I'm not going to give you a final call on it because I don't know," Craig said. "We treated it as a serious situation."
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on April 09, 2014 at 7:05 PM, updated April 09, 2014 at 8:05 PM
DETROIT, MI -- The mysterious 911 call Detroit police received Tuesday sounds like the plot for a Quentin Tarantino film.
A man with a Russian accent called 911 twice Tuesday morning. He sounded distressed, police say. He said he'd been kidnapped, stabbed and was being held captive in an abandoned Detroit warehouse. Trying to help the dispatcher locate him, the man mentioned a river and street names that could have been Jefferson and Chene.
Police say the caller claimed to be a Russian soldier on vacation in Detroit*. And he called from a Russian phone number, Detroit Police Chief James Craig revealed Wednesday.
What occurred after the call was an epic manhunt. As many as 60 law enforcers from the Detroit Police Department and partner agencies spent the next 10 hours searching 35 warehouses from the former Packard plant south to the Detroit River.
The search was called off Tuesday night, but Craig said the investigation is still pending.
It's unclear if it was a hoax, or real.
"I'm not going to give you a final call on it because I don't know," Craig said. "We treated it as a serious situation."
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2014/04/police_confirm_detroit_911_cal.html
who goes to Detroit for vacation?
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