\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDeputies arrested and then released a man who was seen on doorbell cameras carrying a knife and approaching homes in the Arden area, leaving residents shaken and worried.The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said on Saturday that Brian Mattson, 56, was approaching homes on La Sierra Drive on Thursday evening with the knife in his hand.Mattson was found and arrested on Saturday morning, the sheriff’s office said, but investigators determined they could only charge him with criminal trespassing. The sheriff’s office said Mattson was on felony probation, but Sacramento County Probation declined to place a hold on him, resulting in him being released two hours after his booking.KCRA 3 has reached out to Sacramento County Probation regarding Mattson. The sheriff’s office released Mattson’s photo to the public for “public safety awareness” and is asking anyone who has information about him or who may have been a victim to come forward.Rebecca Breen said she and her husband were watching TV around 8:30 p.m. Thursday when they received alerts from their doorbell camera. \u201cWe started getting alerts on our phone that there was action on our motion on our ring camera at the front door,\u201d Breen said. She described the moment they realized someone was at their door. \u201cWe heard a loud knock and we looked in the ring camera and we noticed that there was something very strange going on,\u201d Breen said. The footage showed a man standing at their door with a knife, appearing to make repeated stabbing motions. \u201cIt was terrifying. It was absolutely terrifying,\u201d Breen said. Breen said she immediately called 911. \u201cFirst reaction. We called 911 and asked for them to, that we needed them immediately\u201d she said. Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Lt. Amar Gandhi said deputies responded quickly after receiving multiple calls from residents. \u201cThere were several residents calling, stuff is actually caught on ring camera. So our deputies got there, got in the area actually just within minutes. But by then he’d fled,\u201d Gandhi said. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty scary stuff. He\u2019s going out there literally thrashing on doors with knives. But fortunately, again, nobody hurt. People were very smart in the sense of lock the doors, stayed inside and called us.”Breen expressed concern about the incident. \u201cI do believe that we were a random target. I don\u2019t think that we were specifically targeted, but I think it\u2019s very scary because if it wasn\u2019t us, it\u2019s going to be someone else. I mean, clearly he was not in his right frame of mind at all,\u201d Breen said. Some residents also expressed concern about the time it took for law enforcement to engage with them. One neighbor says she called the sheriff’s office multiple times requesting for them to approach the residence with an update.The sheriff’s office can be reached at (916) 874-5115 regarding the incident.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Deputies arrested and then released a man who was seen on doorbell cameras carrying a knife and approaching homes in the Arden area, leaving residents shaken and worried.<\/p>\n
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said on Saturday that Brian Mattson, 56, was approaching homes on La Sierra Drive on Thursday evening with the knife in his hand.<\/p>\n
Mattson was found and arrested on Saturday morning, the sheriff’s office said, but investigators determined they could only charge him with criminal trespassing. The sheriff’s office said Mattson was on felony probation, but Sacramento County Probation declined to place a hold on him, resulting in him being released two hours after his booking.<\/p>\n
KCRA 3 has reached out to Sacramento County Probation regarding Mattson. <\/p>\n
The sheriff’s office released Mattson’s photo to the public for “public safety awareness” and is asking anyone who has information about him or who may have been a victim to come forward.<\/p>\n
Rebecca Breen said she and her husband were watching TV around 8:30 p.m. Thursday when they received alerts from their doorbell camera. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe started getting alerts on our phone that there was action on our motion on our ring camera at the front door,\u201d Breen said. <\/p>\n
She described the moment they realized someone was at their door. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe heard a loud knock and we looked in the ring camera and we noticed that there was something very strange going on,\u201d Breen said. <\/p>\n
The footage showed a man standing at their door with a knife, appearing to make repeated stabbing motions. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was terrifying. It was absolutely terrifying,\u201d Breen said. <\/p>\n
Breen said she immediately called 911. <\/p>\n
\u201cFirst reaction. We called 911 and asked for them to, that we needed them immediately\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Lt. Amar Gandhi said deputies responded quickly after receiving multiple calls from residents. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere were several residents calling, stuff is actually caught on ring camera. So our deputies got there, got in the area actually just within minutes. But by then he’d fled,\u201d Gandhi said. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty scary stuff. He\u2019s going out there literally thrashing on doors with knives. But fortunately, again, nobody hurt. People were very smart in the sense of lock the doors, stayed inside and called us.”<\/p>\n
Breen expressed concern about the incident. <\/p>\n
\u201cI do believe that we were a random target. I don\u2019t think that we were specifically targeted, but I think it\u2019s very scary because if it wasn\u2019t us, it\u2019s going to be someone else. I mean, clearly he was not in his right frame of mind at all,\u201d Breen said. <\/p>\n
Some residents also expressed concern about the time it took for law enforcement to engage with them. One neighbor says she called the sheriff’s office multiple times requesting for them to approach the residence with an update.<\/p>\n
The sheriff’s office can be reached at (916) 874-5115<\/a> regarding the incident.<\/p>\n See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputies arrested and then released a man who was seen on doorbell cameras carrying a knife and approaching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2475,8186,126091,3413,126087,167,81233,23615,84679,57214,1555,126088,16280,126090,288,126089,121,123,122,2637],"class_list":["post-297494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-alert","tag-amar-gandhi","tag-arden-resident","tag-concern","tag-deputies-search-for-man","tag-deputy","tag-doorbell-camera","tag-download","tag-front-door","tag-knife","tag-man","tag-man-with-knife-arden","tag-neighbor","tag-rebecca-breen","tag-resident","tag-ring-camera","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sheriff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}