Mt. Baldy man arrested for threatening hikers near his abandoned shack
Deputies said the suspect was living in an abandoned shack in Mt. Baldy and threatened hikers with a sledgehammer, while yelling at them to get off his property.
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Nicole Comstock is an award-winning reporter at CBS LA. She joined the team in June of 2018 and covers breaking news at night.
She has reported from the frontlines of Southern California's most destructive wildfires, historic weather events, and was awarded a Golden Mike for her work on the 2021 LAPD bomb truck explosion.
Nicole previously reported and anchored at FOX40 in Sacramento and at KVAL News in Eugene, Oregon.
She is a SoCal native who grew up in Upland and graduated from Cal State San Bernardino with an MFA in Creative Writing.
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Deputies said the suspect was living in an abandoned shack in Mt. Baldy and threatened hikers with a sledgehammer, while yelling at them to get off his property.
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