{"id":298174,"date":"2026-05-03T18:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298174\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T18:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:17:08","slug":"knife-wielding-trespassing-suspect-arrested-again-in-sacramento-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298174\/","title":{"rendered":"Knife-wielding trespassing suspect arrested again in Sacramento County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA man caught on camera allegedly brandishing a knife outside a Sacramento County home is back behind bars for a second time.The incident was captured Thursday night on a Ring camera at a home on La Sierra Drive in the Arden-Arcade area. The Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office identified the man in the video as Brian Mattson. Authorities say the footage appeared to show Mattson making threatening motions with a knife while standing on the home\u2019s front porch.Deputies located Mattson two days later and arrested him on a misdemeanor criminal trespassing charge. According to the sheriff\u2019s office, Mattson was no longer displaying the same behavior seen in the video when deputies found him. Authorities also determined he was on probation at the time.Mattson was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail but released about 90 minutes later after a probation hold was denied.He was arrested again the following night after neighbors reported him trespassing on properties near Fair Oaks Boulevard and San Lucas Way. This time, authorities say he is being held in jail for violating probation.\u201cCalifornia\u2019s justice system is very strange, because again this is still considered a nonviolent offense. Granted he had weapons, granted he was acting the way he was acting, but by all intents and purposes, this is a non-violent crime,\u201d said Amar Gandhi with the Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office. \u201cSo we\u2019re hoping he stays at least until court, hopefully get him connected to some resources that keeps him in jail or some sort of facility somewhere.\u201d The sheriff\u2019s office is asking anyone who may have had an incident involving Mattson to come forward. As of the latest update, Mattson remains in custody at the Sacramento County Main Jail.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<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/arden-residents-alarmed-man-with-knife-doorbell-camera\/71190359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">caught on camera allegedly brandishing a knife outside a Sacramento County home<\/a> is back behind bars for a second time.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was captured Thursday night on a Ring camera at a home on La Sierra Drive in the Arden-Arcade area. The Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office identified the man in the video as Brian Mattson. Authorities say the footage appeared to show Mattson making threatening motions with a knife while standing on the home\u2019s front porch.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies located Mattson two days later and arrested him on a misdemeanor criminal trespassing charge. According to the sheriff\u2019s office, Mattson was no longer displaying the same behavior seen in the video when deputies found him. Authorities also determined he was on probation at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Mattson was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail but released about 90 minutes later after a probation hold was denied.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested again the following night after neighbors reported him trespassing on properties near Fair Oaks Boulevard and San Lucas Way. <\/p>\n<p>This time, authorities say he is being held in jail for violating probation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalifornia\u2019s justice system is very strange, because again this is still considered a nonviolent offense. Granted he had weapons, granted he was acting the way he was acting, but by all intents and purposes, this is a non-violent crime,\u201d said Amar Gandhi with the Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office. \u201cSo we\u2019re hoping he stays at least until court, hopefully get him connected to some resources that keeps him in jail or some sort of facility somewhere.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office is asking anyone who may have had an incident involving Mattson to come forward. As of the latest update, Mattson remains in custody at the Sacramento County Main Jail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/get-kcra-news-on-the-go-download\/44039145\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download our app<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@KCRA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man caught on camera allegedly brandishing a knife outside a Sacramento County home is back behind bars&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6577,126362,167,23615,1073,4456,57214,126361,1555,346,17368,121,357,75115,123,122,17027,2637,5050],"class_list":["post-298174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-authority","tag-brian-mattson","tag-deputy","tag-download","tag-home","tag-incident","tag-knife","tag-knife-wielding-trespassing-suspect","tag-man","tag-office","tag-probation","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-county","tag-sacramento-county-main-jail","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-second-time","tag-sheriff","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298174","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=298174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}