Los Angeles college reopens after threat, arrest

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities have arrested a former Pierce College student for an alleged online threat that closed the Los Angeles campus for about seven hours.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says 26-year-old Sergio Castanon Jr. was arrested shortly before noon Thursday on suspicion of making criminal threats and a search of his Northridge home turned up an assault rifle, handgun, ammunition and illegal high-capacity gun magazines.

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