Armed Suspect Arrested Hiding In Dumpster
- Police arrested an armed man who tried to hide in a commercial dumpster after fleeing officers. - He allegedly ran through barbed wire while trying to elude officers before surrendering. - The arrest highlights officer-safety issues and local investigators are probing the suspect's motives and potential related incidents (patch.com).
A 43-year-old parolee was arrested in Fremont after police said he fled officers, hid inside a commercial dumpster, and was found with a gun. (kron4.com) Fremont police said the encounter began at 8:38 a.m. Monday, April 20, near Industrial Drive and South Grimmer Boulevard, where patrol officers stopped a “suspicious person” and saw the handle of a firearm protruding from his clothing. (kron4.com) Police said the man ran, crossed through barbed wire, and triggered a foot pursuit that ended with officers setting up a containment area around several businesses. Bystanders then told officers he may have jumped into a garbage dumpster on Pestana Court. (kron4.com) Officers used a drone for aerial surveillance, opened the dumpster lid, and deployed a police K9 before the suspect, identified by police as Fortino Preciado, was taken into custody. Police said he kept hiding inside the dumpster after they surrounded it. (kron4.com) Police said Preciado was on parole for a prior resisting-arrest case when he was re-arrested Monday. He was booked into Santa Rita Jail in Dublin on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession of a concealed firearm, and resisting arrest. (kron4.com) The arrest fits a run of recent Fremont cases in which officers said suspects were armed or fled across business and school areas. Patch reported in January that an armed battery suspect barricaded himself for three hours before surrendering, and in March that a carjacking suspect drove through two fences and an elementary school playground during a chase. (patch.com 1) (patch.com 2) Fremont police publish weekly blotters and crime-map data through CityProtect, which the department says is updated daily and covers reported incidents from the previous 180 days. The department says the map is a snapshot and not a full accounting of every case or final charge. (fremontpolice.gov) As of April 23, Fremont police’s public news list did not show a separate press release on the dumpster arrest, leaving the KRON report and police statements it cited as the main public account of what happened. The case now moves to prosecutors and parole authorities after a chase that ended with officers looking into a dumpster. (fremontpolice.gov) (kron4.com)
