Steven Sanoff Jr. was on felony probation and police caught him more than a year ago with a cache of illegal weapons and drugs.
Steven Sanoff Jr.'s arrest Thursday on suspicion of elder abuse after an all-night standoff wasn't his first brush with the law.
The 44-year-old, who lived with his parents in a newer two-story tract home on Morning Glory Court, was locked up more than a year ago after police found a stash of military weapons, records show.
Police found high-capacity magazines, illegal assault rifles, police batons, nunchuks, tear gas and pepper spray holed up in Sanoff's room during a search on Jan. 19, 2010. They also found methamphetamine and morphine and said he was high on some drug when they arrested him.
"We've had contacts with him in the past," Lt. Mike Boehrer said. "This isn't the first time we've had to deal with him."
Sanoff – whom neighbors described as shy, evasive and a little weird – was convicted of 11 felony counts following his arrest last year, court records show.
He was also found guilty of enhancements because of older felony convictions dating back to 1998 and 1999 for assault and illegally possessing a gun.
Sanoff was sentenced in May 2010 to a year in prison with credit for 106 days served. He was also ordered to attend counseling and pay a litany of fines.
Months after his release from prison, however, he's back behind bars.
Police rushed to Sanoff's house around 4 p.m. Thursday after a neighbor called in saying that his elderly mom, Ollie Jan Sanoff, was in trouble.
Sanoff was arrested after a three-hour standoff at his parents house, where he held his mom hostage while crisis negotiators tried to coax him out.
The SWAT team eventually used chemicals to gas him out of the house. Sanoff bolted out the back door before officers tackled him to the ground.
After three hours stuck inside, the mother also stumbled out, dazed, panicked and injured, neighbors said. She walked straight to an officer who escorted her to an ambulance waiting outside that rushed her to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek.
Sanoff hasn't been charged yet in connection with this week's incident, but was booked early this morning at the county jail in Martinez on suspicion of elder abuse, battery and probation violation.
Neighbors said Sanoff had always struck them as bizarre. He would step outside in full military gear and barely spoke a word to anyone, said an across-the-street neighbor kid who declined sharing his name.
Some next-door neighbors said they don't recall ever seeing him except maybe once a year.
"He'd never make eye contact and we hardly ever saw him," the neighbor kid said. "We knew he was weird. But, I mean, he's not harmless, obviously, after what happened."
SOURCE: The Danville Patch
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