RIVERSIDE: Reports of man threatening neighbors with a rifle lead to arrest

RIVERSIDE – Officers arrested a man who was allegedly breaking into mail boxes and threatened to shoot neighbors who tried to intervene with a rifle Tuesday, Jan. 3. The incident and arrest happened  in the 5600 Block of Portola Way in Riverside.

The incident began about 8:15 p.m., when officers responded to 911 calls from citizens reporting a man threatening people with a rifle at the location.

Callers told City of Riverside emergency dispatchers the man, who was later identified as Octavio Carrillo, 24, of Riverside, was not known to the callers and had never been seen in the neighborhood before. Callers advised Carrillo was breaking into and vandalizing several mail boxes.

When neighbors confronted Carrillo, he allegedly made several threats towards them, saying that he was going to get a rifle and shoot them.

Carrillo then ran into a house and returned with what appeared to be a rifle and started running towards neighbors, according to police officials.

When the officers arrived Carrillo was already back inside the house he had retrieved the rifle from.

When Carrillo saw the officers arrive, he reportedly began breaking out windows at the home while yelling at the officers to shoot him.

Officers made several announcements for Carrillo to exit the residence as they began to establish a perimeter around the home. Carrillo eventually complied and was safely taken into custody.

After conducting an investigation into the incident and interviewing Carrillo and the witnesses, officers arrested Carrillo. He was then booked into jail for felony vandalism, making criminal threats, and violation of probation.

An online jail records search revealed Carrillo is being held in lieu of $50,000 bail and is scheduled to be arraigned at the Riverside Hall of Justice Jan 6.

 

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Trevor Montgomery spent 10 years in the U.S. Army as an Orthopedic Specialist before joining the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department in 1998. He was medically retired after losing his leg in an off-duty accident.

During his time with the sheriff’s department, Trevor worked at several different stations, including the Robert Presley Detention Center, the Southwest Station in Temecula, the Hemet Station, and the Lake Elsinore Station, along with many other locations.