RESCUE crews were called to a report of a teenager threatening to jump off Clacton Pier.
The Clacton Coastguard Rescue Team along with the town's inshore lifeboat carried out a search of the area in the early hours of Friday.
However, the man, 18, was found by police and eventually taken home by his parents.
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