Sheriff’s Deputies used a beanbag round to detain a man having what deputies described as a “manic episode” in a vacation home rental.
Early Sunday morning (May 19) just after 1 a.m., Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a naked man acting incoherent, smashing glass, and possibly harming himself at a vacation rental in the 6000 block of San Angelo Ave in Joshua Tree.
Witnesses who were inside the house told deputies that they were friends with the incoherent man, and that they were all staying together at the vacation rental. The witnesses said that they had seen the man drinking, that there were pills on the ground and that the man had a history of mental illness.
Deputies found the man with burns on his back, and requested assistance from San Bernardino County Fire.
Deputies report that while they were in the house the man ran toward them at which point they fired a beanbag round which hit the man’s back.
The man was detained and transferred to Desert Regional for treatment for his burns.
