Man caught urinating near LA train station found to have cache of weapons, police say
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A man caught urinating in public at a Los Angeles County light rail station Wednesday was found to be armed with a cache of weapons in a duffel bag, police said.
Christopher Goodine, 28, was arrested at the Metro Gold Line’s Sierra Madre station in Pasadena at around 9 a.m., the sheriff’s department said. Authorities said they found an AR-15 rifle, a .40-caliber handgun, a machete-like knife, silencers, loaded magazines, bags of bullets, a Bible and a notebook in the bag Goodine was holding.
The markings on the handgun indicated that it was restricted for law enforcement use only, officials said.
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Sheriff Jim McDonnell said there are no indications of terror activity and it is unclear why he was armed.
“For these deputies, just another day … looking at the small things that end up turning into big things,” McDonnell said. “There but for the grace of God, we could have had a tragedy today here in Los Angeles.”
The Los Angeles Times reported that Goodine is Union City, Ga. resident. A man with the same name was arrested in 2015 after he walked into the Waldorf Astoria in New York City with a bulletproof vest strapped around him and a ski mask over his face, according to DNAInfo. At that time, police described the man as “quasi homeless” who “likes to keep clean” and has “strong concerns about personal safety.”
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Goodine was being held on $10,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in a Pasadena courtroom Friday, according to jail records.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.