Hill initially believed the call was a hoax and referred the matter to the Brandeis University campus police who alerted the FBI.

The police were alerted about the man due to an urgent message from Israeli intelligence.

They came face to face with Billie, who alerted Dillinger to the police presence.

On March 12, 2003, just over nine months after the abduction, Mitchell, who was now wanted by police for questioning, was spotted traveling with two companions in Sandy, Utah, by an alert biker who had heard of the kidnapping on America's Most Wanted the night before, and alerted police.

The trucker used his rig to block the exit from the stop while he alerted police.

In the minutes following the crash, police were alerted to a fire at NW 72nd Ave, only to discover it was a plane crash.

She alerted her mother who called the police.

He was arrested when he was on an inspection tour in the Brooklyn armory because a suspicious military tailor had alerted the police.

State police officers were alerted of their plan prior to their arrival and the activists were ambushed and shot.

In Toronto, police were alerted that the show might possibly contain lewd and obscene content ( particularly a masturbation scene ) and threatened charges unless parts of the show were changed.

State police, Wayne County sheriffs, and the Michigan National Guard were alerted, but because it was a summer Sunday, it took hours for the Police Commissioner Ray Girardin to assemble full police manpower.

On December 29, 2007, villagers alerted the police to a man in the village brandishing a gun.

Reports say, however, that it was perhaps the man himself who alerted the police.

Police began an investigation regarding Tedeschi around a week before the news was made public after a division of the Bank of Italy alerted police to two transactions involving the IOR that were deemed suspicious.

After Rolling was arrested, police in Louisiana alerted the authorities in Florida to an unsolved triple murder in Shreveport, Louisiana on November 4, 1989.

John Maris, a local farm worker, alerted police to the hideout at Leatherslade Farm.

On December 31, 2003, police in the city of Glendale began using equipment which alerted them to the location from which a shot was fired.

The police, alerted by Meg's suspicious behavior earlier, arrive in force and capture Burnham, who lets the bearer bonds go ; they fly away with the wind.

Frank Wills ( February 4, 1948 – September 27, 2000 ) was the security guard who alerted police to a possible break-in at the Watergate complex in Washington, D. C., which eventually led to the uncovering of the truth about the Watergate Scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

The doctors alerted Brent police and social services, and she was placed under police protection, with a 72-hour protection order preventing her from leaving hospital.

Having collected the evidence, Newkirk and Pacheco alerted the police, who raided the lab, removed the monkeys, and charged Taub with 113 counts of animal cruelty and six counts of failing to provide adequate veterinary care.

He apparently described how " police could be alerted as soon as a wanted person used a biometric-enabled cash card or even entered a building via an iris-scan door.

He alerted mission control to the problem before setting up the television camera and planting the flag of the United States with Duke.

* Paul Revere's Ride alerted Colonial militia of approaching British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, " Paul Revere's Ride.

At 09: 01, two minutes before impact as United Airlines Flight 175 continued its descent into Lower Manhattan, the New York Center alerted another nearby Air Traffic Facility responsible for low-flying aircraft, which was able to monitor the aircraft's path over New Jersey, and then over Staten Island and New York Harbor in its final moments.

The column that was to attack Mount Independence was delayed, and its numerous defenders were alerted to the action at the fort below before the attack on their position began.

Although initially successful in this venture, " it was not long before African naval forces were alerted to the new dangers, and the Portuguese ships began to meet strong and effective resistance ", with the crews of several of them being killed by African sailors, whose boats were better equipped at traversing the west African coasts and river systems.

Palpatine is first alerted to Thrawn's tactical genius before the rise of the Empire, when he is still the Chancellor of the Republic.

Dacko's personal advisers alerted him that Bokassa " showed signs of mental instability " and needed to be arrested before he sought to bring down the government, but Dacko did not heed these warnings.

Lafayette alerted Washington of his suspicions about the plot before leaving.

Further radio monitoring revealed to the Japanese that the U. S. Asiatic Fleet had been alerted at 4: 00 am of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and they expected attacks on their own bases by B-17s ( bombing through the fog undercast ) at any time after 7: 00 am The air defense weaknesses of the FEAF were mirrored by those of the Japanese, who had prepared only for offensive operations, but no attack came before a final revised plan was issued at 7: 50 am, ordering the main attack force of Japanese land-based aircraft to launch at 9: 15 am and attack at 12: 30 pm

In remote areas of the world with few local observers, fires could rage out of control for days or even weeks and consume millions of acres before authorities are alerted.

The District Political Conference was held at Harsud sometime before August, 1942 had alerted the people for impending struggle.

Wolverine's enhanced senses alerted him to Taskmaster's presence and allowed him to anticipate the attack, which would have harmed him as well, and allowed him to get out of the way before it hit.

The train passed over the bridge before it collapsed and the driver alerted authorities.

Workmen in the area heard the plane pass overhead shortly before crashing and alerted the German authorities, who arrived quickly.

However, one airport claims that their FOD detection system may have paid for itself in a single incident where personnel were alerted to a steel cable on the runway, before a single aircraft was put at risk.

The day before his sentencing he attempted to hang himself, but was stopped after another inmate alerted guards.

She had escaped for an hour and was on top of the Sumatran Tiger nighthouse before a group of school children alerted staff.

He subsequently alerted Jackson, before telephoning Major Bob Hagerty — officer commanding 1st APC Squadron — to warn him of the possible requirement for his standby troop.

Kendall's radio messages alerted Scotland Yard and Inspector Dew was dispatched to Canada on the faster ship, the White Star Line's, and arrived in Canada before Montrose.

He alerted the Home Fleet before turning to engage the cruiser.

An unidentified Saints player first alerted the NFL to the scheme in the 2010 offseason, but the investigation stalled until the NFL found irrefutable evidence of a bounty system just before the 2011-12 playoffs.