EGT Development indefinitely shut down its $200 million grain terminal at the Port of Longview Friday morning after union dock workers set up a picket line and blocked employees and contractors from entering the site.

The company also indefintely has suspended grain shipments to the export facility, and EGT and the dockworker’s union appear headed for a long stalemate.

More than 100 protesters from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 21 gathered outside EGT’s gates around 6 a.m. One man, the father of ILWU Local 21 President Dan Coffman, was arrested on two misdemeanor counts.

"We’re fine with the legal, peaceful protests. But when things cross the line and we start getting reports of vehicles being stopped, threats being made... we’re going to respond to those," Cowlitz County Sheriff Mark Nelson said.

James Coffman, 76, of Rainier was arrested about 8 a.m. on two counts of malicious mischief for allegedly breaking the antenna off an EGT employee’s vehicle and throwing an egg at another car, Chief Criminal Deputy Charlie Rosenzweig said. Sheriff’s deputies identifed Coffman, a retired longshoreman, in a video shot at the scene, Rosenzweig said.