Mountain View Police Arrest Palo Alto Man for Assaulting Cop

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- Police officers tracked down and arrested a man in Palo Alto after he caused a disturbance earlier in the day at an auto parts store in Mountain View.

Around 2:50 pm on Sunday, Feb. 12, Mountain View Police officers responded to an O’Reilly Auto Parts store in the 2600 block of California Street. When they arrived, they were told by employees and witnesses that Palo Alto resident David Oakley had come into the store, upset that he had been given the wrong car part.

Police were told that the man was extremely angry and soon began yelling at employees and even hit an uninvolved customer in the store with a carburetor cover. Oakley then attempted to punch an employee before leaving the store, and as he was driving out of the parking lot, he hit a car with his vehicle.

Mountain View officers who responded to the scene began to investigate where Oakley was, and learned that he lived in Palo Alto. Police went to his residence and called for him to come outside. He eventually came out, but kicked one of our officers in the process and tried to kick out a window of a patrol car, police say.

He was eventually arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, hit and run and resisting arrest and booked into the Santa Clara County Jail.

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