SAN DIEGO – A man who brought an axe into a Pacific Beach library pleaded guilty on October 21 to exhibiting a weapon in a threatening manner.
No one in the library was injured, but people were badly frightened.
William John Hanley, 54, also admitted to personal use of a weapon when he entered the Pacific Beach/Taylor Library on Cass Street on the afternoon of May 8 and began chopping up books, tables, and chairs…