FREMONT — A man was arrested after he was reportedly seen fighting someone with a sword — which turned out be a machete — in front of a strip mall Sunday morning, according to Fremont police.
Emergency dispatchers got a call at about 11:50 a.m. Sunday from someone reporting that two people were fighting in front of a business in the 4900 block of Stevenson Boulevard, police wrote in a news release.
“The witness stated that one of the subjects was holding a sword and possibly had another weapon believed to be another sword or baton,” police said.
Responding officers spotted a man matching the witness’s description, police said, and after clearing the area of any public threat, they kept a distance from the man carrying the weapons.
After giving the man commands to surrender, the man eventually “complied with directions and was safely taken into custody,” police said. There was no indication that police encountered a second combatant from the initial fight report.
A subsequent search of the man turned up a machete, a loaded handgun, and what appeared to be a paring knife. Police said the gun was reported stolen after an unspecified home burglary.
A 33-year-old man who police described as an unhoused Fremont resident was taken to Santa Rita Jail, where records show he was booked on suspicion of illegally carrying a concealed firearm, carrying a loaded handgun he did not own, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and two counts of illegal drug possession.
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