Authorities arrest Kelseyville man during warrant service
- Elizabeth Larson
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — A Kelseyville man arrested four years ago after a standoff with authorities has been arrested again, this time on new charges involving threats.
Joshua Caleb “Buck” Brown, 48, was taken into custody shortly after 7 a.m. Wednesday.
Lauren Berlinn, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office’s new public information and community outreach officer, said the agency served the search/arrest warrant Wednesday morning at the Brown property in Kelseyville.
“Mr. Brown was taken into custody without incident, was booked at the jail on the charges related to the warrant. The warrant was a result of an investigation of elder abuse and criminal threats,” Berlinn said.
Brown was booked shortly after 8 a.m. on charges including a felony charge of threatening a crime with intent to terrorize, and a misdemeanor arrest warrant. His bail was set at $115,000, according to booking records.
Berlinn said the sheriff’s office’s SWAT team was part of the warrant service “due to previous contacts with Mr. Brown.”
In August of 2017, an armed Brown confronted law enforcement officers, Caltrans workers and then-Supervisor Rob Brown as k-rail was being installed near an illegal road access that he had made near his property between Cruickshank Road and Cole Creek Road on Highway 29, as Lake County News has reported.
A manhunt of several hours involving SWAT teams from Lake, Mendocino and Sonoma counties followed, with Buck Brown surrendering on the evening of the same day the incident occurred.
He is due to be arraigned in Lake County Superior Court on Thursday.
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