Auburn man arrested for blowtorch assault and snagging deputy’s baton, Placer Sheriff says
Deputies arrested an Auburn man last week after he allegedly tried to burn someone with a blowtorch at a discount retail store in Colfax, later turning the torch toward law enforcement, authorities said.
The incident started around 9 p.m. last Wednesday, when deputies found the suspect “attempting to burn the victim with a blowtorch” outside the Dollar General store, the Placer County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday in a Facebook post,.
The suspect refused deputies’ orders to drop the blowtorch and instead pointed it toward the deputies. One of the deputies then tried to knock the blowtorch out of his hand using a baton, the post said.
The man managed to grab hold of the deputy’s baton, but the deputy retrieved it back quickly and then took the suspect into custody, the Sheriff’s Office said.
The suspect, identified as 37-year-old Daniel Lindland, was arrested on suspicion of robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, assault on an officer and taking a weapon other than a firearm away from an officer, all felonies. Lindland was booked into the Placer County main jail in Auburn on $115,000 bail.
