Deputies arrest a Big Bear City landlord for assaulting a tenant 
DATE/TIME: March 16, 2016/10:30 a.m.
INCIDENT: Landlord Arrested After Assaulting Tenant
LOCATION: 500 Block of W. Rainbow Blvd., Big Bear City
SUSPECT: Ronnie Lee Yeager, 67-year-old WMA
SUMMARY:
On Wednesday, March 16, at approximately 10:30 a.m., deputies from the Big Bear Sheriff’s Station responded to a reported assault at a residence in the 500 block of W. Rainbow Boulevard in Big Bear City. Deputies made contact with the involved parties and determined that Ronnie Yeager, the landlord of the property, went to the house and confronted the tenant about past due rent.
A physical altercation ensued and Yeager punched the tenant several times and threw him onto a dining room table, causing it to break. Yeager picked up a heavy decorative object and hit the tenant repeatedly on his head with it. The tenant sustained multiple lacerations on his head, requiring medical treatment.
Ronnie Yeager was taken into custody without incident and booked into the Big Bear Jail on a felony charge of assault with a deadly weapon (not a firearm). Yeager remains in custody in lieu of $50,000 bail with an arraignment hearing scheduled for March 18 in San Bernardino County Superior Court.
Refer: Tiffany Swantek, PIO
Station: Big Bear Sheriff’s Station
Phone No. 909-866-0100
Case No. 061600213
John McMahon, Sheriff-Coroner
San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Department
Address/Location
SBSD - Big Bear Sheriffs Department
477 Summit Blvd
Big Bear Lake, CA 92315
Contact
Emergency: 9-1-1