Camas City Council member John Svilarich was arrested Friday in connection with an Aug. 31 altercation with a fisherman along the Washougal River Greenway in Camas.
Svilarich, 66, was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor crimes of reckless endangerment and aiming or discharging a firearm. He was processed at the Camas Police Department and released, according to a Friday police news release.
Camas police said the incident began as a verbal argument between a pedestrian and a fisherman just before 8 a.m. Aug. 31. The argument escalated and continued along the walking path to the point where the pedestrian, later identified as Svilarich, threw an 8-inch rock from the footbridge toward the fisherman below. He then brandished a handgun and pointed it at the fisherman, the news release said.
Officers interviewed both Svilarich and the fisherman, as well as witnesses, on the day of the incident.
