Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor HACIENDA HEIGHTS - A man was disarmed of his machete and detained for a mental evaluation after threatening to kill himself and brandishing the weapon at deputies. The incident began just after midnight at Folkstone Avenue and Novak Street May 22 when deputies encountered the man on a suspicious person call. He brandished the machete multiple times and refused to exit the truck he was in, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Industry Station. Deputies believed initially the suspect moved the truck during the barricade and positioned it to possibly hit them.
During the roughly 50-minute ordeal, the man swung the machete around inside the truck and ignored commands to surrender. Members of the Sheriff’s Mental Evaluation Team arrived and used a phone to establish communication with the man to get him to surrender, but he continually hung up on them. Deputies fired non-lethal pepper ball rounds and stun bags at the man, but he still refused to comply. The man exited the truck, machete in hand, but the weapon was dropped after deputies hit him with more stun bag rounds. A “contact team” approached the man and detained him. |
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