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Bay Bridge Reopens After Armed Stand Off

by NowPublic Staff | November 11, 2010 at 10:29 am

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Bay Bridge Closed Thursday Morning: Armed Man Places Call To CBS Radio

The San Francisco Bay Bridge has re-opened to traffic after being closed for much of Thursday morning. A man distraught because of his wife's alleged infidelity occupied the Upper Deck of the Bay Bridge, with his daughter as an apparent hostage.

The heavy-set man, who brought his teenaged daughter with him, phoned a suicidal threat into the KCBS radio station traffic tip line around 7 a.m. He said he was in an SUV with a gun and explosives and planned to cause problems on a Bay Area bridge, the radio station said.

The westbound lanes of the Bay Bridge were closed around 7:00 am as police negotiated with troubled man who went from threatening to blow up the Bay Bridge, to threatening to jump off the Bay Bridge.
Ultimately, police diffused the situation and the Bay Bridge was reopened to traffic by 9:00 am.