Amtrak Train 790 – the Pacific Surfliner service, operating from San Luis Obispo to San Diego – is being delayed at the Chatsworth station for police activity.
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At least one man was still on the train as of 9 p.m., Montenegro said.
Word the standoff ended came from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, which tweeted a photograph of the suspect on Saturday.
Darius Palmer, 46, of Oxnard was in the sheriff’s Inmate Reception Center in lieu of $125,000 bail Sunday, on suspicion of making terrorist threats and felony possession of a firearm. Palmer was arrested and brought into custody and a handgun was recovered at the scene, an Amtrak spokesperson said.
The train carrying 187 passengers and five crew members was evacuated Friday night after several reported seeing a man with a weapon acting erratically.
The standoff ended almost eight hours later after tear gas was deployed, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
“Amtrak Police, in coordination with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Special Enforcement and Transit Bureaus, apprehended the suspect without incident”, Amtrak spokesman Craig Schulz told The Star.
He was armed with a handgun, Leeds said.
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Train operators were told to stop at the train station in Chatsworth, Calif., and to evacuate the train, Montenegro told ABC News. The police conducted a search of the Amtrak train but were thwarted for a while when the suspect, Palmer, barricaded himself in the train just before 8 p.m. on Friday, according to CBS News 8 San Diego.
