Man arrested at OCC swap meet

Costa Mesa police arrested a 53-year-old Huntington Beach man Sunday

morning on suspicion of trying to assault another man with a knife during

an argument over a parking spot at the Orange Coast College swap meet,

officials said.

Ronald James Colpitts and the victim, whose name was not released,

tried to park in the same parking space, Lt. Dale Birney said.

“One got the space, the other didn’t,” he said. “A confrontation

ensued when Mr. Colpitts brandished a knife at the victim.”

Birney said the victim reported the incident to Costa Mesa police, and

officers located Colpitts at the swap meet and arrested him on suspicion

of assault with a deadly weapon. Colpitts did not injure the man with the

knife but was arrested on suspicion of assault because of his “proximity

to the victim,” Birney said.