{"id":298509,"date":"2026-05-04T01:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298509\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T01:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:02:09","slug":"doorbell-camera-captures-knife-wielding-man-terrorizing-sacramento-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298509\/","title":{"rendered":"Doorbell Camera Captures Knife-Wielding Man Terrorizing Sacramento Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Terrifying doorbell footage has emerged from Sacramento, California, where a knife-wielding man approached and <a data-ylk=\"slk:reportedly;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SacSheriff\/posts\/pfbid0d2BkHpqvYGaJ5PEJ888spVc1qdxFLwqX8kRfVPd38sKHXK4cCRYRauV9s9mGgvENl\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly<\/a> attempted to access homes on April 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office said that Brian Mattson, 56, was approaching homes with the knife in his hand and \u201cacting bizarre\u201d on La Sierra Drive on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage captured from Rebecca Breen\u2019s residence shows the suspect wielding a knife at the front door, in what police said \u201craised significant concern among residents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mattson, who was on felony probation, was arrested on May 2 and only charged with criminal trespassing, and as a result, was released from custody less than two hours after being booked, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe are asking anyone who may have had contact with him, or who may have been a victim of any unreported crimes during this incident, to come forward. Additional victims and information could lead to further charges,\u201d they wrote. Credit: Rebecca Breen via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terrifying doorbell footage has emerged from Sacramento, California, where a knife-wielding man approached and reportedly attempted to access&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[126362,7,126090,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-298509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-brian-mattson","tag-california","tag-rebecca-breen","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298509","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=298509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}