Employees at Dana Incorporated in Warren are evacuated due to bomb threat for third time this year

WARREN (WWJ) -- Police are continuing to investigate after a bomb threat led to evacuations at an automotive supplier in Macomb County on Thursday.

People working at Dana Incorporated on Van Dyke Ave., between 12 Mile Rd. and Martin in Warren, filed out of the building at around 11:30 a.m. after an employee found a note in a bathroom stating something to the effect of "I'm going to blow the place up."

"Based on that, we dispatched police and fire to the scene immediately," said Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer. "We had at least three K-9s that went through the corporation, and it was evacuated."

No evidence of explosives was found.

While this threat was deemed not credible, Dwyer noted that this was the second time this has happened at Dana in less than a month, and the third time this year.

Dwyer told WWJ's Taylor Deitz that he does believe these threats are connected, while the investigations are ongoing.

"Based on my experience they are connected, and in all probability it's an employee of Dana corporation. And for what reason they're doing it, the she's doing it or he's doing it, that could vary," Dwyer said.

He added: "It's concerning when, you know, we're getting into the holidays when you'd have an individual who would cause a disruption and actually a threat to other employees, and put the fear into employees that possibly they are going to die just before the holiday comes upon us."

Back in August, Dana Incorporated was evacuated after a threat was found on a towel in a bathroom.

No one was hurt in any of the three instances.

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