K-9 DISARMS KNIFE-CARRYING BARRICADED SUSPECT.Byline: Daily News CANYON COUNTRY -- A Canyon Country man who threatened to kill his sister and assaulted a female neighbor was in custody Thursday after keeping sheriff's deputies and crisis negotiators at bay for several hours the night before, sheriff's officials said. Mark Hillman Mark Hillman is the Republican candiadate for Colorado State Treasurer for the 2006 Colorado general elections. Biography A native of Burlington on Colorado’s eastern plains, Treasurer Hillman previously served for seven years in the Colorado Senate. , 53, barricaded himself in his Solemint Road apartment about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, telling deputies he was going to kill his sister when she got home from work, according to sheriff's officials. He then assaulted Christine Granados, 47, a resident of the apartment complex, with a butcher knife before returning to his apartment and refusing to come out, claiming he had explosives, Lt. Diane Walker said. When Hillman Hillman was a famous British automobile marque, manufactured by the Rootes Group. It was based in Ryton-on-Dunsmore, near Coventry, England, from 1907 to 1976. Before 1907 the company had built bicycles. stepped out to talk with negotiators, a sheriff's dog was sent to attack, prompting him to drop the knife. Hillman was arrested and booked at the Santa Clarita sheriff's station 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. , Walker said. After doctors at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital determined that Hillman should receive psychological evaluation, he was taken to the mental observation wing of the Twin Towers Correctional Facility The Twin Towers Correctional Facility, also referred to in the media as Twin Towers Jail, is a complex erected in Los Angeles, California to house inmates of the Los Angeles County Courts. It is the world’s largest 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 . |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion