Police are investigating the letter sent to the film-crew union offices as the writers' and actors' strikes drag on.
The Burbank offices of the film-crew union International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 80 remained closed Saturday and at least one weekend event there was canceled after the group received a threatening letter.
Burbank police detectives are investigating the threat, Sgt. Stephen Turner told The Times. No arrest has been made, and no additional information about the letter is being released at this time, he said. The letter, which the industry website Puck characterized as a “death threat,” closed the IATSE office Friday. DeJon Ellis Jr., IATSE’s business manager,that the letter, allegedly written by a grip struggling with unemployment, was postmarked Wednesday and primarily addressed to Local 80, which represents grips and below-line workers.
IATSE is not on strike, but many of its members are unable to work because of productions shut down by strikes by the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA.
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