Fremont Armed Suspect Arrested In Dumpster

Fremont police say officers arrested a 43-year-old man after he ran from them and hid inside a garbage dumpster on Pestana Court. (kron4.com) The encounter began at about 8:38 a.m. on Monday, April 20, near Industrial Drive and South Grimmer Boulevard, where patrol officers said they spotted a “suspicious person” walking in the area. Officers said they saw the handle of a gun protruding from the man’s clothing before he fled on foot. (kron4.com) Police said the man ran through barbed wire as officers set up a containment around nearby businesses. Bystanders then told officers he may have jumped into a dumpster on Pestana Court. (kron4.com) Officers used a drone to watch the dumpster from above, opened the lid, and sent in a police dog before taking the suspect into custody, according to Fremont police. KRON identified the man as Fortino Preciado. (kron4.com) Police said Preciado was on parole for a prior resisting-arrest case when he was arrested again on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm, carrying a concealed firearm, and resisting arrest. He was booked into Santa Rita Jail in Dublin. (kron4.com) The case unfolded in Fremont’s industrial area near South Grimmer Boulevard, but the response spilled across business properties and drew in bystanders, a drone team, and a K9 unit. Fremont police say they publish weekly blotters and map reported crimes through CityProtect as part of their public-safety reporting. (kron4.com) (fremontpolice.gov) Fremont police’s crime-statistics page says the CityProtect map shows reported crimes from the past 180 days and is updated daily, though entries can change with late reports or reclassification. The department says the map is meant to show broad patterns, not official crime totals for any single neighborhood. (fremontpolice.gov) For now, the dumpster arrest stands as a short, fast-moving case: an officer spotted a gun handle, a suspect ran, and officers found him a few blocks away under a metal lid. (kron4.com)