Lawndale resident threatened to shoot Metro crew members, LASD says
A Lawndale resident was arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot crew members on a Metro mission in his neighborhood, L.A. County Sheriff’s Division stated.
The risk was made electronically through Metro’s public criticism portal on Feb. 20 and affected roughly 100 crew members engaged on the C-Line extension within the South Bay, Lt. Brian Jones stated. The suspect, 28-year-old Daniel Doyle Scallion, lives close to the mission.
After a weekslong investigation, greater than two dozen sheriff’s deputies served a search warrant on Scallion’s house round 4 a.m. Wednesday and arrested him on suspicion of creating legal threats, officers stated.
On-line jail data present Scallion was booked round 6 a.m. for a felony, and held on the Lennox station jail on $50,000 bail. He doesn’t seem to have been formally charged, and doesn’t seem to have any prior instances in Los Angeles County Superior Court docket data.
Scallion, a dogwalker, based on his LinkedIn web page, couldn’t be reached for remark.
“The Sheriff’s Division will proceed to work in partnership with Metro or to make sure the security of all Metro staff, ridership and most people,” Jones stated.
Jones stated the nameless risk was linked to Scallion after a warrant sought info by means of the web supplier. He stated it didn’t seem that Scallion had beforehand made any formal complaints relating to the mission and didn’t have a recognized historical past of creating comparable legal threats. He is because of seem in courtroom on Friday, Jones stated.
The sunshine rail mission goals to attach the South Bay from Redondo Seashore to Torrance by increasing the C Line. It has acquired ongoing complaints from residents who’ve taken concern with the proximity of the mission to their properties. However the specter of violence was out of the bizarre, a Metro consultant instructed The Occasions.
Metro stated the mission had continued through the investigation. On Tuesday, safety was seen on website.
The transit company stated the general public was not in peril, however residents who discovered of the risk final month have been alarmed by the ignorance offered.
Chelsea Schreiber has resided in Lawndale for almost 10 years and lives about 30 ft from the mission. For weeks, she has questioned in regards to the risk, involved that residents might be implicated. She stated her husband witnessed the arrest Wednesday morning at Scallion’s house, not removed from the place they dwell. Scallion was recognized to often set off fireworks, Schreiber stated.
She doesn’t consider that violence is an answer. However stated that she and others have continued to voice their fears over the mission’s affect on the neighborhood with none decision.
“Metro’s accountability is so missing that residents are that annoyed,” she stated.
