ARRAIGNMENT SET IN ASSAULT CASE.Byline: Nicholas Grudin Staff Writer CANYON COUNTRY - A 73-year-old man arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. after a four-hour standoff Saturday will be arraigned today in Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, . Sheriff's deputies responded to Joseph Kowalski's apartment about 12:30 p.m. Saturday, after a disturbance at his apartment in the 27000 block of Hidaway Avenue crescendoed with a gunshot. After holding out for four hours, Kowalski's residence was raided by a sheriff's Special Enforcement Bureau team, outfitted with body armor Noun 1. body armor - armor that protects the wearer's whole body body armour, cataphract, coat of mail, suit of armor, suit of armour armet - a medieval helmet with a visor and a neck guard and high-powered rifles. ``Any time that the sheriff's department has a barricaded suspect, especially if he's armed ... if he doesn't come out, we'll call our SEB Noun 1. SEB - a form of staphylococcal enterotoxin that has been used as an incapacitating agent in biological warfare staphylococcal enterotoxin B ,'' said Detective Eric Lasko. Kowalski had been in an argument with his roommate, a woman in her 20s or 30s, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. sheriff's spokesman Brian Lendman. Kowalski locked the roommate out of their apartment, and when she had a neighbor try to enter the apartment using a ladder, Kowalski got his gun, Lendman said. When the neighbor crawled through an upstairs window and made his way into the residence, he was confronted by Kowalski, armed with a pistol, Lendman said. Seeing the handgun, the neighbor ran for the front door and heard a shot ring out behind him as he exited, Lendman said. Monday, Kowalski was being held in county jail in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or on $50,000 bail, Lasko said. He will be arraigned at the Los Angeles County Court in Newhall Superior Court this afternoon. No one was injured in the conflict. |
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