A 73-year-old man pleaded guilty Thursday and was immediately sentenced to more than five years in prison for threatening Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputies with a knife and leading law enforcement on a chase.
Glen Montgomery of Orange pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon, resisting arrest, receiving stolen property, leading police on a chase and leading police on a chase driving in the opposite direction of traffic, all felonies.
Montgomery was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison. He was given credit for 32 days behind bars.
Sheriff’s deputies who saw a parked car with stolen license plates at South Ola Vista and Calle Marina in San Clemente on July 24 attempted to talk to Montgomery, who was inside, deputies said.
Montgomery climbed from the rear seat to the driver’s seat and brandished a knife as he said deputies should shoot him because he did not want to return to jail, deputies said. Montgomery said he had a gun in the vehicle, deputies said.
As the deputies worked to de-escalate the conflict, Montgomery slammed the vehicle into a patrol car and sped away, deputies said. Deputies gave chase but lost sight of the suspect, deputies said.
On July 26, as Montgomery was getting gas in Tustin he saw deputies, jumped into his vehicle and led law enforcement on another chase through multiple cities in Orange County and into Los Angeles County where he was eventually arrested, deputies said.