​Suspect Search Forces Lockdown of Pasadena School Thursday

Written by AARON CASTREJON 
CityWatch Editor 

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ALTADENA - A suspicious man who ran from deputies got away during a perimeter search near a Pasadena school Thursday afternoon.

Deputies responded to a neighborhood around 1:30 p.m. March 5 to at least one report of a man acting suspiciously in the 2000 block of Crarie Street. The suspect fled southbound towards Pasadena, According to Lt. Sanchez of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Altadena Station.

Pasadena Police assisted deputies with searching for the suspect.

Nearby Marshall Fundamental School, 990 N. Allen Ave., was briefly placed on lockdown as a precaution. The Pasadena Police Department released a statement, saying that students were not in imminent danger.

The search was ended roughly two hours later without a suspect in custody, Sanchez told SGV CityWatch.

The suspect was described as a white or Hispanic man wearing black pants and no shirt, Sanchez said.