Year in Review — No. 9: Man Threatened to Blow Up Village Hall, Shorewood Apartments

As the year winds down, we'll all surely look back at what we've done in 2012. Here at Shorewood Patch, we're doing the same thing with a list of the top 10 local stories of the year. 

Join us as we take a trip down memory lane. The top stories were chosen based on page views in addition to the impact it had on the community.

No. 9 —

Residents were forced to evacuated their homes at a Shorewood apartment complex as police combed the buildings with bomb-sniffing dogs after a threat was called in on Aug. 27.

Following the threat being made, a 50-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested at the scene.

The man — Shorewood police indentified as Thomas Yela — called an intervention center and then Milwaukee police and threatened to blow up the “Shorewood court” and an unknown assisted living facility, later determined to be the River Park Apartments, at approximately 4:06 p.m., according to police.

Yela has since been charged and pled guilty to the charge. 

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