At least one man was still on the train as of 9 p.m., Montenegro said.
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An armed suspect was taken into custody Saturday morning after he barricaded himself inside an Amtrak train vehicle for hours in Chatsworth. “Area safe”, tweeted the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Special Enforcement Bureau at 2:19 a.m. local time.
Train operators were instructed to pull the train into the station in Chatsworth – located in northwestern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County – and evacuate the train, Montenegro told ABC News.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies in the Special Enforcement Bureau deployed tear gas into the train vehicle the suspect was in and were able to take him in without further incident. When deputies arrived, the train was evacuated, with the exception of the vehicle carrying the suspected armed passenger, who locked himself in.
A potentially armed man was in custody Saturday after a six-hour standoff with authorities on an Amtrak train in Chatsworth, which caused an evacuation of the train as well as cancellations and service delays.
Schulz said two trains were canceled Satuary – the 564 San Diego-bound Pacific Surfliner and the 573, which was scheduled to go to Los Angeles from San Diego.
Crisis negotiators and SWAT Team officers were dispatched to talk the man, who has not yet been identified, down.
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Deputies at the Chatsworth Transportation Center at 10040 Old Depot Plaza Road “secured the train and began evacuating the passengers”, Montenegro said.
