Crime & Safety
Transient Threatens ER Staff at Queen, Arrested on Felony Charges
A transient upset over his treatment at Queen of the Valley threatened to blow the place up
Around 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Napa Police officers responded to a report of a man making threats to the staff at the Queen of the Valley Medical Center emergency room, according to a Napa Police press release.
When the officer arrived, the staff told him that Anthony Hayden, 45, a transient, was upset over the treatment he had received. As he was leaving the emergency room, he said he would be back to blow up the hospital, police reported.
The staff was scared, believing Hayden intended to carry out the threat.
A short time later, police located Hayden at the nearby Clinic Olé on Pear Tree Lane, the police said.
He was taken into custody and booked into Napa County Department of Corrections on a felony charge of making criminal threats and violation of parole.
According to the Napa County Criminal Justice Information System, he is still in custody.
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Clarification: The original press release said that he was " arrested for terroristic threats," a term used in some states that is defined as "a threat to commit violence communicated with the intent to terrorize another, to cause evacuation of a building, or to cause serious public inconvenience, in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror or inconvenience." The term is no longer in current usage locally.
