SEATTLE – KOMO 4 News reports a burglary attempt at a downtown Seattle luggage store early Friday “went wrong in just about every way possible,” according to police.

Officers responded to the store at around 3:30 a.m. after receiving a call from an alarm company.

As officers arrived, they looked in and spotted a man “skittering on his belly” toward the store’s cash register.

A short time later, as officers were surrounding the building, Seattle’s 911 dispatch center received a phone call, claiming that several people were shooting at each other about six blocks away from the scene of the burglary.

Police were quoted as saying: “(We) immediately gave up on the investigation of the burglary and sent all the officers over to check on the shooting. Just kidding!”

Instead, one officer went and checked out the suspicious shooting report, and found nothing, as the other officers remained in place around the luggage store.

Officers and a K-9 team then entered the business and found a large hole in the store’s wall, about 10 feet above the ground. One officer used a ladder to climb up to the hole and noticed a fresh trail of blood inside.

Police could hear a suspect on the other side of the drywall, so two officers climbed through the hole, which led to an abandoned restaurant.

Officers found a 29-year-old man hiding under a table in the restaurant and a 35-year-old man hiding in the ceiling. Police believe the men were responsible for the bogus 911 report of a shooting. Officers booked both suspects into the King County Jail.

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