SAN MATEO – A 44-year-old San Mateo man has been arrested on suspicion of capturing a flare gun at an officer, police stated.
The incident unfolded at 9 p.m. Tuesday close to South Delaware Avenue and Cypress Avenue, the San Mateo Police Division stated in a information launch Wednesday. The officer was responding to a name for service when a “vivid crimson burning object” whizzed previous his windshield.
The thing, later recognized as a flare, landed within the yard of a house and continued to burn.
The officer stopped to research, however he didn't instantly discover anybody within the space. He then walked southbound on Delaware Avenue and noticed a person sitting on a bench at a bus cease. A flare gun was mendacity on the bottom close to his toes, police stated.
The person grabbed the flare gun and positioned it in his right-hand jacket pocket, police stated.
The person was arrested and booked into San Mateo County jail on costs of discharging a firearm with gross negligence, capturing into an occupied car and assault on a peace officer with a firearm.
An investigation revealed the person had focused the officer, police stated. Officers obtained and served a search warrant on the man’s dwelling and positioned a Taser, Taser cartridges, a mace pepper gun, mace pepper gun cartridges and an empty flare cartridge.
The person was additionally linked to an electronic mail that was despatched to a number of county departments in late January, police stated. The e-mail included a video of an individual firing a flare gun over the San Mateo Police Division’s headquarters on Franklin Parkway.