Traffic was blocked and a SWAT team was dispatched to Glendale Monday morning after a Metro bus driver spotted a sleeping passenger with a gun.
Metro officials said bus drivers were changing shifts at San Fernando and Silos Feliz highways around 9:44 a.m. when one of the bus drivers “discovered a gun in the sleeping passenger’s waistband” and notified law enforcement. Glendale police arrived within minutes and escorted other passengers out of the vehicle, while Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies detained the armed passenger. Vahe Abramyan, public information officer for the Glendale Police Department.
The intersection reopened around noon.
In a statement thanking bus drivers, Metro reminded the public that its policy “strictly prohibits the carrying of dangerous weapons, concealed or visible, on the subway system.”
This is not the first time police have received reports of sleeping subway passengers carrying guns. Last year, the Los Angeles Police Department used a controversial robot dog to communicate with a passenger who was suspected of dozing off while holding a gun. In this way, it turns out to be a BB gun.
Staff writer Nathan Solis contributed to this report.
