Update: man charged in Coast Guard attack
One suspect in custody after an attack on the Grand Haven Coast guard station at 6 a.m Sunday morning.
State bomb squad ruled the area safe after a bomb threat on the Coast Guard station. A man broke into the station at 6 a.m Sunday morning where he assaulted and threatened the personnel.
February 8, 2015
Updated as of 6:58 p.m Feb. 9.
33 year old Matthew Krueger was arrested and charged for the attack on the Grand Haven Coast Guard station Feb. 8.
After the Feb. 8 attack on the Grand Haven Coast Guard station, 33 year old Matthew Krueger was charged for bomb threats and crashing his truck through the gates of the station. One day after he was arrested as a suspect for the attack, he appeared in an Ottawa County court. Krueger is listed as a resident of Illinois but has been living in Mears, Michigan where his house burned down the morning of the attack. He is being charged for making false threats of terrorism (a 20 year felony) and destruction of property (a five year felony).
Updated as of 9 a.m Feb. 9.
Small town Grand Haven was thrown a new one Sunday morning, a possible domestic terrorist attack.
The Grand Haven Department of Public safety is currently investigating an attack on the Grand Haven Coast Guard station, at first the event was being investigated a domestic terrorist attack, officials have since ruled that there are no signs it was an attempt at terrorism.
According to the Grand Haven Dept. of Public Safety, Sunday morning at about 6 a.m, a male in a full size Dodge Ram truck crashed through the gates of the station. He then broke into the building where he assaulted the Coast Guard personnel and threatened having explosives in his truck. He was subdued and arrested. The station was evacuated with nobody hurt.
FBI and state police will aid in the investigation on an attack at the Coast guard station. One suspect is being questioned.
The Coast Guard reports that the Ottawa County Dispatch contacted the Coast Guard Sector Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, reporting they had gotten a call from an unknown man claiming he was going to blow up the Grand Haven station.
Authorities released that the suspect is a 33 year old Michigan man who is not a resident of Grand Haven and are unsure if he acted alone. Both his motives and intentions are unclear at the moment. The Grand Rapids FBI and state police will be aiding the investigation. He has also become a suspect in a suspicious fire in Oceana County, being the last one seen at the site. The Oceana County Sheriff reports they got called to a fire at 4 a.m on 34th Avenue in Golden Township. The scene was badly damaged, a home which had been remodeled to look like an old gas station. The suspect lived in a residence in that building and had been seen there Saturday.
The road closures and shelter-in-place instructions are lifted. As of roughly 12:30 p.m the Michigan state bomb squad ruled there are no explosives and the station is safe.
Updates will be posted as they become available.
