A 35-year-old man has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to 10 years in prison for attacking two men with a pick ax in Lake Forest, according to court records obtained Monday.
Tyler Scott Graves crashed a car into a house in the 22000 block of Robin Street, south of Jeronimo Road, on May 22, 2023, according to Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputies.
Graves ran from the crash about 100 yards away to where he was living in the 22000 block of Pheasant Street, where he found the ax and chased a gardener around before storming upstairs into the house and slamming the weapon against the door of a roommate until he smashed his way in, deputies said.
The roommate managed to persuade Graves to hand over the ax, but the defendant got it back just as deputies were arriving, deputies said.
Deputies ordered Graves to drop the ax, but he refused, prompting deputies to use shotgun bean-bag rounds and a Taser to subdue him, according to deputies.
Graves was taken to a hospital to be treated for a wound from the crash and was later booked, deputies said. Before he began residing in the Pheasant Street home, Graves was living in Trabuco Canyon, deputies said.
No injuries were reported in the attacks.
Graves pleaded guilty Thursday to three counts of assault with a deadly weapon, all felonies, as well as three counts of brandishing a weapon and single counts of resisting arrest and hit and run with property damage, all misdemeanors.
Graves pleaded guilty in October 2014 to three counts of robbery and a count of burglary, all felonies, as well as misdemeanor counts of possession of burglary tools, loitering on private property, receiving stolen property, shoplifting and petty theft. He also pleaded guilty at that time in a separate case to a felony count of burglary.