Man Threatens School Staffer, Police Say

A 35-year-old man was arrested following an incident at Warren Snyder-John Girotti Elementary School where he allegedly threatened to 'blow' a school employee away.

A 35-year-old man was arrested for an incident at Warren Snyder-John Girotti Elementary School and must stay 100 yards away from Bristol Borough School grounds, police said. Edwin Landman, of Garfield Street in Bristol, went to the elementary school Tuesday to pick up his daughter, police said. The father became very angry when a school employee asked to see his identification before he could enter the building, according to a police criminal complaint. "What the [expletive] for?" courts documents quote Landman as saying to the school employee. Landman eventually produced identification and was let into the school, according to court documents. Once inside, he said, "Now I am in, I can blow you away." The man became "irate" inside the …

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Police: Man Behind School Threat Under Arrest

Daniel Gallagher was taken into custody by Bristol Borough police hours after phoning threats to a Philadelphia lawyer. The two public schools in the borough were locked down as officers searched for Gallagher.

  A Bristol Borough man is facing several charges after he is alleged to have harassed a Philadelphia defense attorney and made threats against a school. Daniel Gallagher, 50, of the 200 block of Mill Street was taken into custody by officers who flocked to the borough to search for him. He was thought to be armed, but police discovered no weapons on him. The 50-year-old is facing charges out of Philadelphia because he called a city defense attorney that represented him during an arson case in the 1980s and made the threats, borough police chief Arnold Porter said. Gallagher is alleged to have harassed the lawyer and told him that “blood will flow” at an unnamed school. Philadelphia police detectives alerted borough authorities at 2 p.m. …

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