A Friday morning (February 24) 911 call led to the arrest of a Landers man for suspicion of false imprisonment, child endangerment, and assault with a deadly weapon. At 9:15 a.m. yesterday, County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a house in the 600 block of Covelo Ave in Landers after receiving a 911 call asking for help. When they arrived, deputies identified Stephen Mark Frye, a 45 year-old resident of Landers, as the suspect and placed him under arrest.
An investigation was conducted, and Deputies say that Frye had pointed a gun at a female victim in the house, threatening to kill her, and preventing her and her infant child from leaving the house. A search was conducted of the house, and Deputies recovered several firearms.
Stephen Mark Frye was arrested for investigation into spousal abuse, assault with a deadly weapon, criminal threats, false imprisonment, and child endangerment and was booked into the Morongo Basin Jail on $300,000 bail.
