Police arrest allegedly armed boater who avoided them for 10 days
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TIBURON, Calif. - A 53-year-old Sausalito man was arrested Friday in Tiburon after a standoff from his boat with deputies from Marin County Sheriff s Office
Paul Ray Smith Jr. was booked into Marin County Jail on suspicion of multiple charges including felony assault and battery, resisting arrest, assault with a firearm and assault on a police officer for incidents that began March 18 and ended Friday after deputies towed his boat ashore and took him into custody.
The first incident involved Smith firing a flare gun at the Richardson Bay Area harbormaster while the official was towing a vessel to the Army Corps of Engineers on March 18, according to a press release from the sheriff s office. The flare did not reach the harbormaster s boat.