It was a busy day Tuesday for Woodland police, whose morning began with an alleged assault on officers and ended with the investigation of a neighborhood shooting, according to reports.
Sgt. Dallas Hyde said officers were dispatched shortly after 9:30 a.m. to the intersection of Court and Second streets, where Yolo County probation officers were attempting to apprehend a man who reportedly threw a rock through a window and tried to kick in a door at the former county courthouse.
Hyde identified the man as 24-year-old Leonardo Peña of West Sacramento, who “had a large piece of concrete in his hand and would not comply with officers’ orders,” he said. “While attempting to take Peña into custody two Woodland PD officers receiving non-life threatening injuries.”
Peña ultimately was taken into custody and booked into the Yolo County Jail on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and resisting arrest, as well as a parole hold, Hyde said.
In a separate incident that night, reports of a loud fight and gunfire brought officers to the 600 block of Harvard Court just before 11:30 p.m.
“As officers responded to the call, additional callers advised of multiple shots being fired and a white Jeep Cherokee fleeing the area,” Hyde said. No injuries were reported, and police soon spotted the Jeep in the parking lot of 505 W. Cross St.
Officers arrested the driver, Woodland resident Jared Ray Lampkin, 35, after allegedly finding him with a firearm and methamphetamine, Hyde said. He was lodged at the jail on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, possession of methamphetamine, possession of a methamphetamine pipe and driving on a suspended license.