Man arrested for violent, erratic attacks across Mariposa and Madera counties, deputies say

MARIPOSA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A antheral has been arrested aft deputies accidental helium "terrorized" radical passim Mariposa and Madera counties.

The Mariposa County Sheriff's Office says it each started connected Wednesday, August 21, erstwhile 40-year-old Anthony Mehlhaff went to a edifice successful the Buck Meadows area. They accidental went up to a large worker and told her, "The spirits led maine to you and your babe belongs to me, and what clip is your interruption due to the fact that I volition beryllium waiting for you."

Deputies accidental Mehlhaff past stole aggregate drinks, assaulted different worker and near successful his car towards Yosemite National Park.

Park rangers tried stopping Mehlhaff connected Highway 41 wrong parkland boundaries, but authorities accidental helium crashed his car adjacent Fish Camp and stole a bike.

Deputies accidental Mehlhaff aboriginal went into the Tenaya Lodge kitchen, grabbing a weapon and threatening employees. He past reportedly went to a adjacent creek and took disconnected his pants.

Shortly after, deputies accidental helium went into the Tenaya Lodge Clubhouse and threatened radical inside. Mehlhaff allegedly assaulted and tried kidnapping the store manager.

Deputies accidental Mehlhaff stole the manager's conveyance and got connected Highway 41 towards Oakhurst, wherever the fishy got into a roadworthy rage incidental with the operator of a Tesla.

Mehlhaff yet crashed the stolen conveyance connected the road conscionable extracurricular of Oakhurst and was taken into custody.

While being examined astatine a adjacent hospital, the fishy reportedly started assaulting Mariposa County deputies.

Mehlhaff was booked into the Mariposa County Jail connected a $100,000 bail.