March 19, 2008
Parolees ‘Gone Wild’ - Scary encounter leads to two arrests near Placerville
A shotgun-wielding parolee and an unregistered sex offender were arrested Sunday afternoon by El Dorado County sheriff's deputies after a man reported a scary encounter in Mosquito, a rural enclave north of Placerville.
The man told sheriff's deputies that he had gone to a home on White Oak Drive to help a woman bury a dead dog. Jason Harley Costa, 32, also was residing at that address, and he and the man had been involved in a previous altercation, said Sgt. Jim Byers, sheriff's office spokesman.
When Costa saw the man arrive, Byers said, he grabbed a shotgun and confronted the man outside the home. Costa is a parolee who is not supposed to have access to firearms. He allegedly struck the man with the weapon. When the man suggested that Costa put down the gun and fight him fair and square, Costa allegedly fired a blast into the ground, Byers said…
LINK - SacBee.com (The Sacramento Bee)
