Early Saturday morning, an unsettling incident unfolded at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport as a man was taken into custody after he made alarming threats and confined himself within a restroom. According to an arrest affidavit obtained by CBS Austin, Joshua Mancias, the man in question, allegedly warned that he would "shoot this place up" if the authorities didn't comply with his demand to "get the boss man."

The disturbance began close to 1:34 a.m., with airport staff raising alarms about Mancias who had shut himself in a single-stall restroom, from where his threats and screams emanated. Responding rapidly to the potential threat, airport-based Austin police officers hustled to the scene, leading to the evacuation of bystanders from the vicinity. Screaming in a locked single-stall restroom, three people took shelter in a United Airlines baggage office before being evacuated.

Despite repeated directives from the police to leave the restroom, Mancias allegedly refused to emerge for roughly 40 minutes. During the time he remained barricaded, there was a suspension of baggage claim operations, and police resources had to be retasked from other duties within the airport. The report from MSN indicates that these actions caused significant disruption to the airport's service, particularly in the baggage claim area.

Mancias is now facing multiple charges, which include interrupting critical infrastructure operations and issuing a false report that precipitated an emergency response, as well as threatening violence with the intent to disrupt public transportation systems. Having been locked in a single-stall restroom, when Mancias finally surrendered to authorities, they charged him with serious offenses. Currently, Mancias is detained at the Travis County Jail, with bond set at $10,000.