A man with a violent past snuck onto a stopped school bus transporting Alvord Unified students on Wednesday, Oct. 1, but he did not harm the six special needs students and was quickly arrested, the Riverside Police Department said Thursday.

The man, identified as 36-year-old Bryan Keith Lofton, entered through the emergency exit door at the back of the bus, sat down, buckled himself in and asked to be taken to a hospital, said Officer Ryan Railsback, a Police Department spokesman.

Lofton was instead driven to Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside, where he was booked on suspicion of trespassing and violating parole. He was being held without the possibility of bail.

It was unclear on Thursday whether the emergency door is typically left unlocked. The bus was stopped at a red ligh

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