A Chelan County man is behind bars after police say he threatened a neighbor with dangerous weapons and damaged their property on Tuesday morning.

The Chelan County Sheriff's Office says deputies were dispatched at around 10 a.m. to reports of a disturbance in the 200 block of Mystic Creek Lane in Chelan.

They arrived at the scene to find a suspect, 56-year-old Jose Franco Nunez, screaming from the top of an adjacent hill and armed with what appeared to be a rifle.

As deputies approached the hill it became evident that Nunez did not possess a rifle, but rather was armed with two Samurai-style swords.

When deputies closed in on Nunez, he ran down the hill and began banging on the door of a mobile home located at the property. After which, the resident of the mobile home stepped outside

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