{"id":298346,"date":"2026-05-03T22:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298346\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T22:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T22:07:12","slug":"knife-wielding-maniac-terrorizes-california-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298346\/","title":{"rendered":"Knife-wielding maniac terrorizes California neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A knife-wielding man was arrested Saturday for criminal trespassing after allegedly terrorizing residents in a Sacramento neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Haunting video captured the moment <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/02\/us-news\/ring-camera-captures-knife-wielding-maniac-stalking-arden\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Mattson<\/a> appeared on the porch of Rebecca Breen\u2019s home Thursday evening brandishing a knife and appearing to making repeated stabbing motions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brian Mattson, 56, was arrested Saturday for allegedly terrorizing a Sacramento neighborhood with a knife.  Ring<\/p>\n<p>\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 told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/arden-residents-alarmed-man-with-knife-doorbell-camera\/71190359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">KCRA<\/a>. \u201cIt was terrifying. It was absolutely terrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Lt. Amar Gandhi\u00a0told the outlet deputies received similar calls from several other residents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Multiple neighbors frantically called police about Mattson brandishing a knife, authorities said.  Ring<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty scary stuff. He\u2019s going out there literally <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/28\/us-news\/man-armed-with-knife-tries-to-escape-california-cops-after-being-shot-multiple-times\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thrashing on doors with knives<\/a>,\u201d he said. \u201cBut fortunately, again, nobody hurt. People were very smart in the sense of lock the doors, stayed inside and called us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old fled when authorities arrived, but was later found and arrested on Saturday morning, the outlet reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mattson, who was on felony probation, was only charged with criminal trespassing and released a few hours after being booked, according to the outlet citing authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested later that same day when police responded to another incident involving Mattson trespassing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of Saturday evening, Mattson remained in custody according to KCRA.<\/p>\n<p>Breen told the outlet she doesn\u2019t believe her family was targeted, but said it was \u201cvery scary\u201d nonetheless.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\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 she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A knife-wielding man was arrested Saturday for criminal trespassing after allegedly terrorizing residents in a Sacramento neighborhood.\u00a0 Haunting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7,723,47,4182,236,121,123,122,3586],"class_list":["post-298346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-los-angeles","tag-metro","tag-police","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298346","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=298346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}