A Forest Lake man was recently charged with second-degree assault after he allegedly menaced a relative with a long knife or machete in a home on Bay Drive.
According to court records, on April 2, Derek Robert Olsen, 24, of Forest Lake, was in the garage of a home in the 900 block of Bay Drive Southeast, where he had been staying, when a relative came into the garage. Olsen, whom the relative believed to be under the influence of some kind of controlled subject, allegedly held a blade the victim identified as a 2- to 3-foot-long machete to the man’s throat, causing the man to believe that Olsen was going to cut off his head. The man told police he was able to talk to Olsen and calm him down, at which point Olsen took the blade away from the man’s throat and began using it to hit various objects
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