Threatening call from patient prompts lockdown at Huntington Hospital; suspect in custody

A fishy has been taken into custody connected suspicion of making a threatening telephone to Huntington Hospital that prompted a impermanent lockdown of the Pasadena installation connected Friday afternoon, authorities said.

A antheral who was a diligent successful the exigency country astir 2 p.m. phoned successful the menace aft being discharged, according to Lisa Derderian, a spokeswoman for the metropolis of Pasadena. The installation was placed connected lockdown, with incoming ambulance postulation rerouted to different hospitals, she said.

The infirmary resumed mean operations astir 6:30 p.m., according to spokesperson Dorey Huston.

Hospital employees were sent a substance astatine 5:41 p.m. saying: "Huntington Hospital received a Code Silver menace via phone. Facility connected lockdown, but nary request to structure successful place."

Read more: 'Swatting' telephone astir gunman astatine Loma Linda infirmary prompts monolithic constabulary response, evacuations

Code Silver is simply a infirmary codification for a idiosyncratic with a weapon, an progressive shooter oregon a hostage situation, according to the Hospital Assn. of Southern California.

Employees received an "all-clear" alert soon earlier 7:30 p.m., according to copies of the messages reviewed by The Times.

The Los Angeles Police Department took a fishy into custody astir 6:30 p.m and past transferred him to the Pasadena Police Department, which is the pb bureau for the incident, Derderian said. No contiguous accusation was disposable connected what helium mightiness beryllium charged with.

This incidental comes connected the heels of 2 "swatting" calls that prompted important instrumentality enforcement responses successful Southern California.

Swatting is the sanction for a mendacious transgression oregon exigency being reported astatine a circumstantial determination to provoke an assertive instrumentality enforcement response, often by a SWAT team.

Dozens of heavy equipped deputies swarmed Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital connected Wednesday evening aft a caller told officials helium was readying connected “shooting up” the San Bernardino County aesculapian facility.

Read more: L.A. County 18-year-old pleads blameworthy to making 375 'swatting' calls passim the U.S.

Then connected Thursday evening, students were warned to structure successful spot astatine the 5 undergraduate colleges successful the Claremont consortium aft the Claremont Police Department received a telephone informing of a gunman connected the field of Claremont McKenna College.

Neither the Loma Linda Hospital nor the Claremont McKenna calls were deemed credible threats, and it is chartless whether immoderate of the incidents are related.

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