Local and federal law enforcement authorities in Los Angeles have stepped up security on the city’s Metro rail system after the FBI received a tip that a terror attack on a subway station was planned for Tuesday.
(FOX)- Although the threat’s credibility had not been confirmed, authorities were taking no chances, Deirdre Fike, assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, told reporters Monday night.
“Information was relayed this morning to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force from our international partners that there was a potential threat from an anonymous phone call that was made on a public safety line,” Fike said.
The caller was very specific, telling authorities the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Universal City station was the target, she said.
“We are right now looking at the credibility of the threat,” Fike said.
Although authorities tend to receive more such threats during the holidays, she said, they chose to tell the public about this one because of its specificity and because the attack was threatened for the next day.