EL SEGUNDO, CA (WCMH) — Police say the man was blowing the extremely loud horn early in the morning, disturbing several neighbors. 
 
 According to El Segundo police, at about 4am, November 13, officers in the west side of a town heard an extremely loud horn being actuated that sounded similar to a train horn. 
 
 Police said there were several reports, spanning several weeks, of the same horn in the neighborhood coming from the same 4-door compact vehicle driven. 
 
 After hearing the horn, officers pulled over John W. Nuggent in a 2006 Chevrolet Aveo, and after inspecting the vehicle, they found air-horn equipment inside his car. 
 
 Multiple neighbors responded to the scene and initiated a citizen’s arrest of Nuggent. 
 
 Nuggent was taken into custody and is being charged with suspicion of disturbing the peace. His car was also impounded, horn and all. 

 The praise poured onto El Segundo Police Department’s Facebook page from ecstatic residents. 
 
 “They found the air horn guy!!” wrote Jenn Birch. 
 
 Jennifer Phan wrote to another resident, “It was this idiot that’s been waking us up!” 
 
 According to police, Phan and other residents can now sleep easy. 
 
 On Sunday, patrol officers heard the blare of an actuated air horn — a device similar to a train horn — as it shattered the pre-dawn silence of El Segundo’s west side at about 4 a.m., police said on Facebook. 
 
 Officers looked around and saw only one car on the street — a little blue four-door, 2006 Chevrolet Aveo — and pulled it over, said Sgt. Vincent Martinez. 
 
 In the back of the car, officers found an air tank with hoses connected to a device near the car’s gas pedal, Martinez said. When an officer tried the car’s horn, the sound of “a big truck or train” blasted from the diminutive hatchback, he said. 
 
 The driver, identified as John W. Nuggent, admitted he was the man who for the last six weeks had been driving down the street in the middle of the night waking up residents, Martinez said. The target of Nuggent’s nuisance was a resident on the street with whom he had some sort of dispute, Martinez said. 
 
 “I’ve been an officer for over 27 years and I don’t know if I’ve ever seen someone retaliate using an air horn,” Martinez said with a chuckle. “But people find very creative ways at getting at other people.” 
 
 According to police, one of the residents who reported the horn told dispatchers on the phone Sunday that they’d actually seen the driver before, and that resident was able to positively identify Nuggent as the suspect. 
 
 Nuggent was arrested on suspicion of disturbing the peace. 
 
 “He’s been doing this for weeks, and we’ve been chasing him for weeks —– but we got him,” Lt. Ray Garcia told KNBC. 
 
 Joseph.serna@latimes.com 
 
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 UPDATES: 
 
 2:25 p.m.: This article was updated with details of Sunday’s arrest. 
 
 This article was originally published at 8:25 a.m.
– It may seem there's more fighting than rejoicing on Facebook lately, but for the residents of El Segundo, Calif., it's time to celebrate. "They found the air horn guy!" one local crowed online, per the Los Angeles Times, applauding a somewhat anticlimactic ending to the early-morning din that's been plaguing the city for six weeks. On its Facebook page, the El Segundo Police Department noted that at around 4am Sunday, officers heard an "extremely loud air-horn being actuated" and followed the sound to a 2006 Chevy Aveo driving around, which they pulled over. Inside: driver John Nuggent and air horn equipment, which Nuggent admitted to using to stir residents out of sleep. Several locals emerged from their homes and made a citizen's arrest against Nuggent—an important fact, the San Diego Union-Tribune notes, with police explaining that officers can't be victims of "disturbing the peace." Had the residents not come out, the cops would only have been able to give Nuggent a slap on the wrist for a traffic infraction; now the charge gets prosecutable misdemeanor status, with a maximum of 90 days in jail, a $400 fine, or both if he's found guilty. Sgt. Vincent Martinez tells the Times the blare fest was apparently Nuggent's way of retaliating against someone in the area with whom he had a beef. "I've been an officer for over 27 years and I don't know if I've ever seen someone retaliate using an air horn," Martinez says. "But people find very creative ways at getting at other people." WCMH notes that the car, along with the horn, was impounded. (A Nebraska woman was charged with disturbing the peace—by sticking her hand in a tiger cage.)