Part of Columbia road closed after hotel bomb threat

Matthew Sanders

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A southeast Columbia road was closed for about an hour Monday morning after a bomb threat was made against a hotel.

Columbia Police officers were sent to a reported bomb threat at the Courtyard by Marriott on Lemone Industrial Drive at about 10 a.m., Columbia Police Department spokesmanBrian McNeil said. Police cleared the scene a little over an hour later after finding no explosives.

The threat and response led to the hotel’s evacuation, and part of Lemone Industrial Boulevard was closed.

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