No one was injured after a nearly nine-hour standoff this morning on Manitowoc’s Southside.
Manitowoc Police say that around 11:40 Friday night a woman reported threatening behavior from her ex-boyfriend. While at the Police Department, the woman received a call stating her ex may have thrown some sort of flammable/explosive device in front of her residence in the 1000 block of South 25th Street.
Multiple law enforcement agencies including The Brown/Outagamie Bomb Squad converged on the area early Saturday morning. Power was cut to the area and residents were told to leave their homes. Numerous attempts were made to draw the barricaded subject out of the home to no avail, when just before 11:00 a.m. Saturday morning, the stand-off was over.
Few other details are known other than tactical teams and the bomb squad were cleared from the area around noon and police say there is no threat to the public. Power has been restored and citizens are back in their homes.
Police say the area will remain closed to allow for their “on-going” investigation and more information is expected to be released in the upcoming days.
