A suspect has been arrested on suspicion of making a threatening call to the Huntington hospital that caused a temporary closure of the passing of Pasadena on Friday afternoon, authorities said.
A man who was a patient in the emergency room around 2 PM called for the threat after being discharged, according to Lisa Derderian, a spokeswoman for the city of Pasadena. The installation was placed in the blockade, with incoming traffic of redirected ambulance to other hospitals, he said.
The hospital resumed normal operations around 6:30 pm, according to spokesman DOREY Huston.
Hospital employees were sent a text message at 5:41 pm saying: “Huntington Hospital received a threat of Silver Code by phone. Installation in Lockdown, but it is not necessary to protect instead. ”
Code Silver is a hospital code for a person with a weapon, an active shooter or a hostage situation, according to the hospital association. from southern California.
Employees received a “clean” alert shortly before 7:30 pm, according to copies of the messages reviewed by The Times.
The Los Angeles Police Department arrested a suspect around 6:30 pm and then transferred it to the Pasadena Police Department, which is the main agency of the incident, said Derderian. There was no immediate information available about what could be accused.
This incident occurs immediately after two “blow” calls that caused important responses to the law in southern California.
Swatting is the name of a false crime or an emergency that is informed in a specific place to cause an aggressive response of the law, often by a SWAT team.
Dozens of strongly armed deputies swollen the Children's Hospital at Loma Linda University on Wednesday night after a person he called told the officials that he was planning to “shoot” the Medical Center of the San Bernardino County.
Then, on Thursday night, students were warned to take refuge in the five undergraduate universities in the Claremont consortium after the Claremont Police Department received a warning call from a gunman on the Claremont McKenna College campus.
Neither Loma Linda hospital nor Claremont McKenna calls were considered credible threats, and it is unknown if any of the incidents are related.
