{
  "id": "2025-09-30-monroe-county-community-college-bomb-threat",
  "slug": "monroe-county-community-college-bomb-threat-2025-09-30",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Monroe County Community College",
    "shortName": "MCCC",
    "state": "MI",
    "type": "community-college",
    "alertSystemName": "MCCC Alert",
    "enrollment": 3000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-09-30",
    "type": "bomb-threat",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "confirmed-hoax",
    "headline": "Bomb threat; campuses evacuated and cleared",
    "summary": "Monroe County Community College received bomb-threat emails and evacuated Main Campus and Whitman Center. The college [published an official update](https://www.monroeccc.edu/news/2025/update-on-bomb-threat-main-campus-and-whitman-center-have-been-officially-cleared-and) with a detailed timeline. Full text recovered.",
    "outcome": "No explosive devices were found. Both campuses were declared safe at 4:07 PM. The email IP address was traced to a non-local origin. Both campuses opened as usual the following day.",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 0,
      "injured": 0
    },
    "headlinePublic": "Bomb threat; campuses evacuated and cleared"
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "update",
      "timestampApprox": "Official college statement recovered 2026-07-26",
      "channel": "website",
      "verbatimText": "CORRECTION: An earlier version of this release noted a time that the Sheriff's Office arrived on campus, but that time was an approximation of when MCCC officials first interacted with officers. The officers may have arrived sooner to secure the campus, so MCCC does not have an official arrival time. This has been corrected below.\n\nMONROE, Mich. - Just before 10 a.m. this morning, Monroe County Community College received a bomb threat to its Main Campus in Monroe and its Whitman Center location in Temperance.\n\nAs of 4:07 p.m., all campus buildings at Main Campus in Monroe and Whitman Center were officially cleared and declared safe, Vice President of Enrollment Management and Student Success Dr. Scott Behrens announced.\n\nAll buildings will be on lockdown until the campus opens tomorrow morning. Main Campus and Whitman Center will be open as usual tomorrow.\n\nPeople who need to retrieve vehicles may do so. However, the buildings will remain closed until tomorrow, so anyone who needs to retrieve items inside buildings will need to do so then.\n\nBelow are more details from Behrens on what happened:\n\nToday at 9:48 a.m., multiple MCCC Safety Services personnel received email messages indicating that an explosive device was on campus. The Safety Services team presented the evidence to the VP of Enrollment Management and Student Success at 9:53 a.m.. The team immediately agreed to treat the threat seriously and evacuate the campus. Verbal evacuations began at 9:57 a.m., and the alarms sounded with a personal message from Safety Services to evacuate all buildings at 9:59 a.m. Police were notified immediately (at 9:57 a.m.). By 10:28 a.m., all buildings were cleared of people, which was verified twice thereafter by a deputy and Safety Services. Once all buildings were cleared, they were officially placed on lockdown (at 10:40 a.m.) so that they could no longer be entered.\n\nBomb detection dogs were brought in, and every room in all buildings on the Main Campus, as well as the Whitman Center, was methodically and individually cleared.\n\n\"First and foremost, I would like to thank our security team and the police and fire departments, including canine officers, who acted swiftly and put themselves at risk to ensure the safety of our students and employees,\" Behrens said.\n\nResearch by the Monroe County Sheriff's office indicates that the email IP address was not local. The Sheriff's Office is continuing its work, and updates will be provided as they become available.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.monroeccc.edu/news/2025/update-on-bomb-threat-main-campus-and-whitman-center-have-been-officially-cleared-and",
      "sourceDescription": "Official college public statement / news update",
      "annotations": [
        "Verbatim from official college page; prior unconfirmed reconstructions replaced."
      ],
      "characterCount": 2494,
      "confidence": "high"
    }
  ],
  "context": "On September 30, 2025, Monroe County Community College's Safety Services personnel [received multiple email messages at 9:48 AM](https://www.monroeccc.edu/news/2025/update-on-bomb-threat-main-campus-and-whitman-center-have-been-officially-cleared-and) indicating an explosive device was on campus. The campus alert went out at 10:29 AM, and both the Main Campus in Monroe and the Whitman Center in Temperance were evacuated. [Bomb detection dogs were brought in](https://www.toledoblade.com/local/police-fire/2025/09/30/bomb-threat-causes-evacuation-at-monroe-county-community-college/stories/20250930096) and every room in all buildings was methodically cleared. By 4:07 PM, both locations were officially declared safe. The Monroe County Sheriff's office determined [the email IP address was not local](https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2025/09/30/bomb-threat-cancels-classes-at-monroe-county-community-college/), consistent with the out-of-state origin of similar threats received by [universities across the country](https://www.13abc.com/2025/09/30/monroe-county-community-college-evacuated-due-bomb-threat/) that same day.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "The methodical room-by-room search of every building on two campuses took approximately six hours",
    "Community colleges, with typically smaller security staffs, face outsized challenges when responding to these large-scale threats",
    "The 41-minute gap between email receipt (9:48 AM) and campus alert (10:29 AM) reflects the time needed to assess threat credibility"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Update on bomb threat - Main Campus and Whitman Center cleared (MCCC)",
      "url": "https://www.monroeccc.edu/news/2025/update-on-bomb-threat-main-campus-and-whitman-center-have-been-officially-cleared-and",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-07-26"
    },
    {
      "title": "Monroe County Community College issues all-clear after bomb threat (Toledo Blade)",
      "url": "https://www.toledoblade.com/local/police-fire/2025/09/30/bomb-threat-causes-evacuation-at-monroe-county-community-college/stories/20250930096",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Bomb threat cancels classes at Monroe County Community College (ClickOnDetroit)",
      "url": "https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2025/09/30/bomb-threat-cancels-classes-at-monroe-county-community-college/",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Monroe County Community College evacuated due to bomb threat (13ABC)",
      "url": "https://www.13abc.com/2025/09/30/monroe-county-community-college-evacuated-due-bomb-threat/",
      "type": "local-media"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "medium",
  "tags": [
    "bomb-threat",
    "hoax",
    "michigan",
    "community-college",
    "coordinated-threat",
    "multi-campus",
    "k9-search"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-05-03",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-26",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}