Surface was questioned for several hours. He was informed that several hours earlier a phone call was received by the hotel from his room.” The caller told hotel staff a bomb was in room 118, Surface’s room, and would be triggered if the door was opened. “Surface was handcuffed at the table in front of everyone and paraded through the gaming area, off the boat and through the lobby and into the casino holding area.
But Ken Surface of Bloomington, who was playing poker at the casino when the threat supposedly was phoned in from his room at Horseshoe’s hotel, has retained attorney Larry Wilder to notify the Indiana Gaming Commission that he intends to file a lawsuit in Harrison County.Īccording to a statement released by Wilder, Surface was confronted by law enforcement and casino security sometime after 11 p.m.
A bomb threat phoned in to Horseshoe Southern Indiana on July 10 was determined to be an exercise by its security vendor.
