A disgruntled Marriott employee who had an enormous arsenal of weapons stashed at his home was arrested after telling a colleague he planned to carry out a mass shooting at his workplace, authorities have said.

Rodolfo Montoya, of Huntington Beach, California, was allegedly plotting to murder his co-workers and Marriott hotel guests with his cache of high-powered firearms including two assault rifles, a pump-action shotgun, several pistols/handguns and body armour following an undisclosed dispute with his HR department.

But his plan was foiled when the 37-year-old cook let slip his deadly intentions to a colleague who informed their manager.

The manager then called the Long Beach Police Department who raided Montoya's home and seized the stockpile of weapons.




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Thousands of rounds of ammunition are pictured following the police raid.

LBPD were alerted to the potential mass shooting by a colleague of Montoya's who said the gunman had revealed his deadly intentions to him following an alleged HR dispute.

Montoya, who worked as a cook for the hotel, allegedly spoke to a fellow employee on Monday about the HR dispute and threatened 'that he was going to shoot up fellow employees and people coming into the hotel.'

'That is terrifying,' said Imran Ahmed, the general manager of the Long Beach Marriott, at 4700 Airport Plaza Drive.

During a news conference today, Luna turned and directly addressed Ahmed and said: 'Sir, you saved many lives, not only of your employees but any customers that may have been at the Marriott when this guy decided to show up and carry out his threat.'


'Multiple firearms, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and tactical gear were seized, including high-capacity magazines and an assault rifle, which are illegal to possess in California,' Long Beach Police officials said in a statement late Wednesday.

Montoya was charged with manufacturing and distributing assault weapons, possession of an assault weapon and making a criminal threat.

He is currently being held on $500,000 bail at the Long Beach City Jail.

'We have seen several tragic incidents that have resulted in many lives lost,' said LBPD Chief of Police Robert G. Luna in a press conference disclosing the arrest.

'The witnesses who came forward and the diligence of our employees involved in this investigation very likely prevented a threat of violence and saved many lives.'





Some 25 people have now been arrested over threats to carry out a mass shooting since the attacks in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, at the start of August.

The FBI has been on high-alert for copycat shooters, it has been reported.

Just negodu this white people. Are they not mad like this?

Nowhere is safe

Guns guns everywhere in America
I wonder why they still sell assult rifles to individuals.
Some folks here in naija will wish to have some of em

The question is US law permitted an individual to have such massive fire arms at home? Is he going for Hunter exploit?

Wow... This is getting worse by the day...

May God save us from people with bad intentions and may they use their own hands/mouth to do themselves. Na this one mouth give him up and so shall it be for my enemies..... Amin

This would have been disastrous for sure.

I say....give me Yankee kpali plus million dollars to go settle in the US..i no gree.

Blood thirsty whackjob!!
Thank Goodness they averted it ASAP!! With those guns the shithead would have done a lot of damage, he would fuckedd shit up
Accolades to the coworker!! If it’s in Nigeria the coworker has to report anonymously else NPF go tag the person as an accomplice all in the name of bail money!
You go dey hear please you have to follow us to the station just to write a statement that’s all until they reach there put the coworker behind bar!

Jabioro:
The question is US law permitted an individual to have such massive fire arms at home? Is he going for Hunter exploit?

Hunting ke? You don't need all these hunting except that long rifle.

You will ask if he's going for War, not hunting.

Kudos to his coworker who exposed the evil minded deranged guy.....

Just imagine the kind of people m sharing planet earth with...

Nowhere seems to be the only place safe ND that's cus it just doesn't exist...

Back home in Nigeria, if it's not herdsmen wahala, then it's banditry...if it's not, then it's kidnap...it's not , then it's ritual acts, it's not then it's terrorist attack, it's not, then it's ur fellow man trying to conjure the usage of black magic on u.....u think bout better meat to collabo with the palm wine u drinking, LALA go just carry snake begin brandish for your front anyhow....u stand to kick against the ills bothering the nation, ZOMBIES would appear from nowhere to counter u

Ngwanu u come say make u leave earth find ur way go other planets, na only fear of alien existence nd hunger thoughts go just dey use ur innocent mind dey play tricks u anyhow.....which kain wahala be this? Eh! Y evils?

Thank God the witness didn't call it an empty threat and just let go.

This is a wake up call to us all, while we can't take people seriously every time they make threats like this, we also have to be observant. So many people are deranged somewhere upstairs looking for victims.

O boy see heavy weapons Mr Imran Ahmed thank you for saving innocent lives.

When you have too much of freedom, then it becomes a curse!



The US govt need to curtail some of the 'freedom' they entrenched in their Constitution.

I think the Montoya guy was trying to mimic the Virginia Beach shooter. Another example of a disgruntled employee-turned-mass-shooter.

Well, only difference here is that the clown couldn't keep his bloody mouth shut. He just made the police's job damn easy. All wanna-be mass-shooters should just be like this dude. Honestly. The cops would just relax and have an easy day at the office.


But how did the hotel end up hiring such a mentally unstable cook though? Did they do a proper check on him- background and otherwise? Like what sort of "cook" goes around amassing such large cache of military-class weapons? I thought cooks only collect pans and spatulas?

Indeed, the days are getting stranger...

Did you just say a hotel cook in California have this stash of boneShredder n cartridges??

Damn. Now wonder the lot an ex military would have stashed down his garage and his room if an ordinarily cook could have this for himself alone.

By the way ... I love guns. When I make enough paper, I will get one of those pump-action shotguns or two. Since it's illegal to own a Gloak in Nigeria, I will just have to manage the monstrosity n bulk weight of a daunting shotgun.

I'm not planning to depend on police for my family's protection. Buh I will depend on them for a couple of crocodile skinned body bags for em butter fingers who try to rob me.

This one weak me o

See arsenal

Is he going for war? Thank God he used his own mouth to foil his evil plans.

Blow my mind

If it was the NPF, believe me that he is co worker would be arrested and termed an accomplice, they would assume it was a deal gone wrong...



Besides, them swear with gun for this whites , this America I have been saving up for, it's like I will not go again

Make America Great Again indeed.

starbuck:
If it was the NPF, believe me that he is co worker would be arrested and termed an accomplice, they would assume it was a deal gone wrong...

Security is an illusion.

USA is as good as any place to have your life prematurely snuffed out in seconds.

Explorers:


Hunting ke? You don't need all these hunting except that long rifle.

You will ask if he's going for War, not hunting.

Na was o

Stupid USA

Lord knows as a Nigerian, I'm scared of going to USA as much as I am of South Africa

Read my siggy

what is it with Americans and mass shootings

What is wrong with this people? Is mass shooting now a religion?

A hotel cook manufacturing guns in his house and a whole country cannot manufacture pensil.