A Sacramento County Sheriff's Department deputy sustained minor injuries while struggling with a man he was attempting to detain in North Sacramento this morning, a sheriff's department spokesman said.
The man, who ran from deputies and was not located during an ensuing search, is now wanted on suspicion of assaulting an officer, said department spokesman Deputy Jason Ramos. Another man was arrested during the search on an unrelated weapons charge, Ramos said.
Deputies responded to Dawn Way near Howe Avenue at about 9:45 a.m. today, after a resident called to report a suspicious subject, Ramos said. They located the man, who was uncooperative and refused to identify himself.
When deputies attempted to detain the man, he began struggling with them, Ramos said.
"At one point, he and the male officer fell to the ground," Ramos said. "The officer was trying to get control and in doing so suffered some minor cuts to his elbow and wrist."
The suspect freed himself and fled northbound into an apartment complex in the 2600 block of Howe Avenue. Deputies searched a unit where they were told the suspect may be hiding, but did not locate him, Ramos said.
However, one occupant of that apartment building, who was found to be on parole, was arrested after an AK-47 rifle and 400 rounds of ammunition were located in an apartment, Ramos said.
Authorities believe they have identified the suspect who fled officer, but he is still at large, Ramos said.
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