Crime & Safety

Man With Knife Arrested While Chasing Another Man: Police

Police say the Fremont man admitted trying to stab the other man.

FREMONT, CA — Fremont Police have arrested a man who tried to stab another man in Fremont on Tuesday, police say.

It happened just before 4 p.m. in the area of High Street and Grimmer Boulevard.

A police officer was driving when he spotted a man armed with a knife and chasing another man, police say. They arrested 50-year-old John Lindberg of Fremont, who police say admitted that he planned to stab the 25-year-old man because of a domestic dispute.

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Lindberg was booked into the Santa Rita Jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.

— Bay City News contributed to this report; Image by Renee Schiavone, Patch

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