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Detroit courtroom reopens after bedbug false alarm

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DETROIT (AP) -

Court's back in session for a Detroit district judge who cleared her courtroom and sent staff home after a bailiff observed possible bedbugs crawling on a man in the first row of seats.

36th District Judge Cylenthia LaToye Miller said her courtroom had reopened Friday. She emptied the room Thursday.

Court officials say a pest control company was called in to investigate and found no evidence of the presence of bedbugs. A release called it a "false alarm."

The man was accompanying a witness to a hearing before Miller. His daughter later said she knew there were bedbugs in her father's house.

Miller said Thursday the evacuation was "for everybody's well-being." Her staff was sent home after Miller was unable to move her cases to another courtroom.

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