Marquette Man Sentenced for Fake Hospital Bomb Threat

A Marquette man has avoided jail time for calling in a fake bomb threat to a hospital.

Seventy-year-old Patrick Bassett was sentenced Monday in 96th District Court in Marquette. He pleaded guilty to a charge of malicious use of telecommunications services, after phoning the threat to UP Health System-Marquette last month. 

In exchange for the plea, a felony False Bomb Threat charge was dropped.

Bassett will spend a year on probation. He was also sentenced to a jail term of at least six months, but that was suspended.

His fake call on December 2nd led to a three-hour lockdown, while the hospital was searched.