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A Marquette man has been arrested following a bomb threat at UP Health System-Marquette early Friday.
Hospital staffers called police at 3:40 in the morning, saying an unknown man had told them a bomb had been placed at the facility.
The hospital was locked down, and a search by police and hospital security staff found no explosives.
Officers later arrested 70-year-old Patrick Bassett on charges of making a false report or threat of a bomb. He’s being held in the Marquette County jail.
Bassett was convicted of a similar crime a decade ago. FBI records indicate he called a high school in New York state with a false threat in February of 2011. At the time, he admitted that the call was part of a series of letters and calls harassing his ex-girlfriend, whose daughter he believed attended the school. He was sentenced to 24 months in prison.
