Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor ROSEMEAD - A teen threatening to jump from an overpass climbed to a waiting female deputy Saturday evening. The teen climbed out from San Gabriel Boulevard to outside the chain link fence over eastbound lanes of the 60 freeway. Deputies who arrived immediately began talking with the teen, according to Lt. Vienna of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Temple Station. Deputies from the Sheriff’s Temple Station were called to the scene at 6:13 p.m.
The Sheriff’s Mental Evaluation Team, crisis negotiators began arriving, Vienna said. The teen refused to speak to male deputies on scene and requested a female deputy to talk to, according to Sheriff’s radio traffic. “Once we had a female deputy establish communication with the patient, she did come over on her own and has been taken to a hospital for an evaluation,” Vienna told SGV CityWatch. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor ROSEMEAD - A teen is reportedly threatening to jump from a bridge onto the 60 freeway Saturday night. Authorities have all eastbound and westbound lanes stopped. A mental evaluation team from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is en route via helicopter to assist in helping the teen surrender. The teen is standing on the San Gabriel Boulevard overpass, according to Officer Elizabeth Kravig of the CHP.
California Highway Patrol officers were called to the San Gabriel Boulevard overpass just after 6 p.m. August 17 to a report of a pedestrian climbing the fence to the overpass. Drivers stopped and attempted to prevent the teen from climbing over, according to the CHP. The teen is reportedly refusing to speak with a male officer and wants only to speak with a woman, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s radio traffic. Sheriff’s deputies with the Temple Station, CHP officers, Los Angeles County firefighters and Montebello Police are on scene. |
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