Berkeley city worker arrested for alleged threats to colleagues, himself
A Berkeley city employee was arrested Monday for allegedly threatening to shoot himself and other city workers over the weekend, according to police.
Pat Urdahl was arrested in Concord at about 1:20 p.m. Monday after he failed to show up to work, police said.
Urdahl, 56, allegedly made the threats on Sunday and when he was arrested Monday, officers allegedly found a gun, ammunition and drugs, according to Berkeley police.
He was booked into Santa Rita Jail in Dublin on suspicion of making threats, possession of a gun by a felon and possession of drugs while armed, along with several felony enhancements, police said in a news release Wednesday.
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