Lawndale resident threatened to shoot the metro crew members, said Lasd

A Lawndale resident was arrested for allegedly threatened to shoot crew members in a metro project in his neighborhood, said the County Sheriff department.

The threat was made electronically via the Metro public complaint portal on February 20 and assigned approximately 100 crew members working on the C-Line extension in South Bay, said Lieutenant Brian Jones. The suspect, Daniel Doyle Scallion, 28, lives near the project.

After a survey of several weeks, more than two dozen Sheriff deputies served a search warrant at Scalon’s home around 4 am on Wednesday and arrested him for suspicion of criminal threats, officials announced.

Online prison files show that Scalon has been reserved around 6 am for a crime and detained in the prison of Lennox Station under bail of $ 50,000. He does not seem to have been officially charged and does not seem to have any previous cases in the files of the Superior Court of the County of Los Angeles.

Scalon, a Dogwalker, according to his LinkedIn page, could not be joined to comment.

“The Sheriff department will continue to work in partnership with Metro or to ensure the safety of all Metro employees, traffic and the general public,” said Jones.

Jones said the anonymous threat was connected to Scallion after a mandate requested information through the Internet supplier. He said he did not seem that Scallion had previously filed official complaints concerning the project and had no known history of similar criminal threats. He should appear in court on Friday, Jones said.

The Light Rail project aims to connect Redondo Beach’s South Bay Torrance by widening line C. It received complaints during residents who have challenged the proximity of the project with their homes. But the threat of violence was out of the ordinary, a metro representative in Times told.

Metro said the project continued during the investigation. Tuesday, security was seen on site.

The public transport agency said that the public was not in danger, but residents who learned the threat last month were alarmed by the lack of information provided.

Chelsea Schreiber has been in Lawndale for almost 10 years and has lived around 30 feet from the project. For weeks, she wondered about the threat, concerned about the fact that residents can be involved. She said that her husband had witnessed the arrest on Wednesday morning at Scallion home, not far from where they live. Scalon was known to regularly trigger fireworks, said Schreiber.

She does not believe that violence is a solution. But said that she and others continued to express their fears about the impact of the project on the community without any resolution.

“Metro’s responsibility is lacking so much that residents are frustrated,” she said.