The Contra Costa County Sheriffs Office announced Friday that earlier this month, they located a man hiding from them in an air tight gun safe in San Pablo home.
The Sheriffs Office called the locating of the suspect a case of a combination of good luck and timing.
Deputy Sheriffs responded earlier this month to a report of someone brandishing a weapon and making threats in unincorporated San Pablo.
When Deputies arrived, the suspect had apparently returned to his home. Deputies got permission to check the home, but were not able to locate him.
While Deputies were at the home, they heard banging and cries for help coming from the garage. Deputies discovered that the suspect hid himself in a standing air-tight gun safe in the garage and that he could not free himself.
He had been in it for over an hour. He gave the combination to the safe to Deputies, who freed him.
He was later booked at county jail.
