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PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A Tulare County antheral is successful custody aft a astir 12-hour manhunt. Deputies accidental that Kenneth Bratton, 43, fired astatine them portion they were serving an eviction announcement successful Porterville.
According to the Tulare County Sheriff's Department, Kenneth Bratton had an outstanding warrant for individuality theft and fraud.
"Kenneth Bratton is idiosyncratic that is precise good known to our agency. He's been arrested aggregate times," said Tulare County Sheriff's Lt. Randy Gunderman.
Around 10:30 Thursday morning, 2 Tulare County deputies went to the 600 artifact of West Mulberry Avenue to service the eviction notice.
"They made contact with the tenants, and arsenic they were ensuring that determination was nary 1 other wrong the house, they contacted a antheral who was seemingly hiding down a laundry country door," Lt. Gunderman said.
Gunderman says a conflict past broke retired arsenic deputies tried to instrumentality Bratton into custody.
"Deputies tried to utilize a Taser, which was ineffective," helium said.
According to deputies, Bratton grabbed for a firearm located wrong his waistband and fired 1 shot. Thankfully, nary 1 was hurt. Deputies managed to drawback the firearm, but Bratton took disconnected successful a stolen car.
"You ne'er cognize what you could beryllium walking into, and this is simply a cleanable illustration of that," Gunderman said.
After receiving tips from the assemblage astir Bratton's imaginable hiding place, deputies recovered him astatine a location successful Terra Bella astir 12 hours aft the archetypal contact. Officials accidental that erstwhile deputies located him, Bratton had ingested fentanyl. He was taken to a adjacent infirmary for attraction earlier being booked into the region jail.
