Politics & Government
Fair Visitor Arrested on Suspicion of Battery, Trespassing and Being Drunk and Disorderly
Brandon Mayors was booked into San Diego Central Jail, the Sheriff's Department reports.
A man was arrested at Ramona Country Fair over the weekend on suspicion of battery of a security guard, trespassing and being drunk and disorderly in public, according to the Sheriff's Department and the security firm that made the arrest.
Brandon Mayors, 21, was placed under citizen's arrest by the security firm, said Dep. Tom Seiver of Ramona Sheriff's substation on Monday. He said a sheriff's deputy went to the fairgrounds and took the man into custody.
"Any time there's a citizen's arrest, we are mandated to take the person into custody," Seiver said. "The arrest remains a citizen's arrest, not an arrest by the Sheriff's Department," he said.
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Visitors to the fair witnessed three men holding Mayors on the ground in the vendor area and placing handcuffs on him, but many had no idea what had happened. At least two of the men were private security guards employed by a Ramona company, Banach Investigations. The incident was called into the Sheriff's Department just before 7 p.m. the report states.
"Citizens can use the force necessary to make a citizen's arrest," Seiver told Patch on Monday morning. "Two security guards approached a suspect in the carnival area who was reported to be drunk and disorderly, cutting in line and making customers mad. He was uncooperative and refused to leave. He shoved one of the guards," Seiver said.
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The Sheriff's Department report states that the victim of the alleged battery was David Casillas, 25. It states that he was not injured.
Seiver said the Sheriff's Department booked the arrested man into San Diego Central Jail.
Skip Banach, owner of the security firm, told Patch on Monday that the man was arrested on suspicion of battery on a security guard (P.C. 243), trespassing (P.C. 602) and being drunk and disorderly in public (P.C. 647 (f)).
In the Sheriff's Department report, Mayors is described as 6 feet 1 inch tall, weighing 205 pounds.
Ramona Country Fair was at Ramona Outdoor Community Center on Aqua Lane.
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