A Santee business owner was arrested this weekend after allegedly threatening to shoot sheriff’s deputies who had responded to reports of gunshots, officials said.<\/p>\n
The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office responded at about 12:30 a.m. Saturday to the 8700 block of Magnolia Avenue to reports of possible gunshots heard in the area. They spotted Robert Sanford, 43, apparently armed with a handgun, entering his business suite on Rockville Street, authorities said.<\/p>\n
“Deputies surrounded the property and attempted to contact Sanford via phone. He was uncooperative and refused to exit the building to speak with deputies,” SDSO Capt. Chris Katra said in a statement. “During the incident, deputies observed possible bullet holes in a parking sign located in front of Sanford’s suite. Approximately 100 yards to the south, behind the sign, is a church.”<\/p>\n
Katra said that based on the fact that Sanford was alone inside the Robert Sanford Heating and Air business and no victims were identified, deputies made a tactical decision to disengage from Sanford and arrest him later.<\/p>\n
“At 7:16 a.m., deputies conducted a follow-up and discovered evidence indicating Sanford was in possession of a handgun and had made threats to shoot deputies if they entered his business. At approximately 10:06 a.m., investigators from the Santee Station’s Investigations Unit obtained a search warrant for Sanford’s business suite,” Katra said. “With the assistance of the Special Enforcement Detail (SWAT), the warrant was executed, and Sanford was taken into custody without incident.”<\/p>\n
During the search, detectives allegedly recovered a 9mm handgun and multiple 9mm shell casings from the business.<\/p>\n
Sanford was arrested on suspicion of negligent discharge of a firearm and threats against peace officers, both felonies. He was booked into San Diego Central Jail on $25,000 bail, with arraignment scheduled for Wednesday in El Cajon Superior Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Santee business owner was arrested this weekend after allegedly threatening to shoot sheriff’s deputies who had responded…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":463829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,10860,7264,22788,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-724583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county-sheriffs-department","tag-sandiego","tag-santee","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116396470594267214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}