Twain Harte, CA…From the Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Dept….Many of you heard sirens and saw police activity yesterday evening near Black Oak Casino in Tuolumne. Just before 5 PM, Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a disturbance at a home on Golf Club Drive in Twain Harte. It was reported that 66-year-old David Mussenden forced open a locked door to a fellow neighbor’s home to steal truck keys. When he could not find them he forced his way into the the man’s RV and attempted to hit the him with a lamp before taking the keys to a 1999 gray Ford Ranger.

Mussenden was located driving the stolen truck at Black Oak Casino and refused to exit the vehicle when ordered to by deputies. Approximately an hour later he was safely taken into custody.

Mussenden was booked into the Tuolumne County Jail for robbery, burglary, assault, vehicle theft, resisting arrest and possession of drug paraphernalia.