LAKEPORT, Calif. – A man who was involved in a nearly six-hour-long standoff with law enforcement on Wednesday night was arraigned in Lake County Superior Court on Friday.
Robert Scott Hisel, 52, was taken into custody Wednesday night after a Lake County SWAT team broke down the door and smashed through windows at his home on Fourth Street in Clearlake Oaks, as Lake County News has reported.
He allegedly shot a woman in the hip with a pellet gun, shot at deputies and barricaded himself in his house for several hours.
Hisel, whose occupation on his booking sheet is listed as care provider, is charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon and assault likely to produce great bodily injury, according to Chief Deputy District Attorney Richard Hinchcliff, who filed the charges against Hisel.
Hisel also is facing a charge of being a felon in possession of ammunition for .22-caliber ammunition that deputies found in his home, Hinchcliff said.
Because a pellet gun doesn’t qualify as a firearm under California law, he could not be charged for using a firearm in the assault, according to Hinchcliff.
So far, Hinchcliff said that he still does not have any formal reports on the incident from the sheriff’s office to aid in building the case against Hisel.
Hinchcliff said that on Friday Hisel also was arraigned on charges of possession of a firearm and possession of methamphetamine stemming from an April 21 arrest.
Hisel has a previous prison term on his record. According to Hinchcliff, in 1986 Hisel was sentenced to two years in state prison in a Lake County case for burglary and possession of stolen property.
During his Friday court appearance, Hisel’s bail was set at a total of $200,000 for both of the active cases against him, Hinchcliff said. He remains in custody.
Two grenades also were found in Hisel’s residence, according to the sheriff’s office, which called in Napa County’s bomb squad to detonate the devices on Thursday morning.
Clearlake Oaks resident Mike Lang, who had watched the standoff unfold on Wednesday night, reported that on Thursday morning, “I was sitting in my living room and I heard a siren and I heard an explosion.”
He went over to Hisel’s home, where he said the detonation took place in the front yard and appeared to have blown the windows out of a van parked in front of the home. “I don’t think they were planning on as big an explosion as they got.”
After the standoff and Thursday morning grenade detonation, Lang said the home looked like a war zone.
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