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Police investigate suspicious phone call at Marion Party City
MARION - Law enforcement agencies from several departments responded to the Party City on Twixt Town Road Monday.
Newsline 9 callers first reported the incident around 5 p.m. Officers on the scene said they were investigating a suspicious phone call.
Police say all employees were out of the building when officers first arrived. Pictures from the scene showed crime scene tape around the front entrance and no cars in the parking spaces closest to the business. A Gazette photographer observed a K9 unit exiting the store.
Authorities started taking down the crime scene tape and letting people back inside around 5:30 p.m.
K-9 Officer Mitch Walser and 'Fador' exit Party City as Marion Police investigates a suspicious phone call in Marion on Monday, October 6, 2014. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette)
K-9 Officer Mitch Walser and 'Fador' walk around the vehicles in the parking lot as Marion Police investigates a suspicious phone call at Party City in Marion on Monday, October 6, 2014. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette)
A Marion police car sits in front of the Party City on Twixt Town Road on Monday, October 6, 2014. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette-KCRG-TV9)
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