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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; A woman who sarcastically told an onlooker she was shot after injuring her hand on a tumble down a nearby hill mobilized police from two neighboring departments and sent three city businesses into nearly an hour-long lockdown Monday evening.</p><p>City and township police responded to a call in the area of Burlington Coat Factory on Route 309 just after 5 p.m Monday evening, according to Luzerne County 911. There, more than a dozen officers combed a wooded area behind the business for an alleged assault suspect, who was later found and led out of the brush in handcuffs.</p><p>Police later determined there was no assault.</p><p>According to Wilkes-Barre Township Sgt. Mark Hampton, the frenzy was set off after a patron saw a woman emerge bloodied from the woods behind Burlington and asked her what happened. Hampton said the woman told the patron she had been shot.</p><p>&#8220;The whole thing snowballed after that,&#8221; Hampton said.</p><p>Businesses surrounding Burlington, including Home Depot and Raymour &amp; Flanigan, were told not to let patrons leave until the lockdown was lifted.</p><p>The woman was taken to Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Plains Township with a laceration on her left hand, Hampton said. Meanwhile, township police cuffed the male suspect and placed him into the back of a police cruiser.</p><p>Police decided no charges would be filed after they interviewed both suspects.</p><p>Officers recognized the woman from a past encounter in 2007 in which she claimed she was being chased by helicopters, Hampton said, adding that he believed both subjects were under the influence.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Police search Monday evening for an alleged assault suspect in a wooded area behind Burlington Coat Factory in Wilkes-Barre. Officers later determined no assault occurred. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/web1_wbtwp.jpg</photo0><caption0>Police search Monday evening for an alleged assault suspect in a wooded area behind Burlington Coat Factory in Wilkes-Barre. Officers later determined no assault occurred. </caption0><photoCredit0></photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Joe Dolinsky</p><p>jdolinsky@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Joe Dolinsky at 570-991-6110 or on Twitter @JoeDolinskyTL</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Shooting claim sends Wilkes-Barre businesses into lock down