Los Gatos Arrest For Exhibiting Deadly Weapon, Assault, Battery

Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies have booked a San Jose man in connection to a domestic violence incident that occurred last December in Los Gatos.

According to a sheriff's arrest report, Charles Pereida, 46, was taken into custody at 2 p.m. Dec. 18, 2012 at a home located at 18084 Idalyn Drive, in the rural community of Redwood Estates in Los Gatos on suspicion of battery.

Booked the morning of Feb. 10, Pereida, whose occupation is listed in the report as a carpenter, was charged with misdemeanor exhibiting a deadly weapon and misdemeanor assault and battery.

Redwood Estates is located eight miles south of Los Gatos.

A person who, except in self-defense, in the presence of another, draws or exhibits any deadly weapon whatsoever, other than a firearm, in a rude, angry, or threatening manner, or who in any manner, unlawfully uses a deadly weapon other than a firearm in any fight or quarrel is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not less than 30 days, according to the California penal code.

The deadly weapon could be a knife, bat, machete, switch-blade, broken bottle, crowbar, but not a firearm, the penal code states.

An assault is an unlawful attempt to commit a violent injury on another, according to the law and is punishable by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both the fine and imprisonment, the penal code says.

Battery is defined by the penal code as any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon another and is punishable by up to six months in county jail, up to $2,000 in fines, completion of a batterer’s class, or community service.