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CEDAR CITY — A southern Utah man has been arrested and accused of pointing a gun at another vehicle that had children inside during a suspected road rage incident.
Michael Barrett Lindsten, 60, was booked into the Iron County Jail for investigation of two counts of child endangerment and two counts of aggravated assault and threatening to use a weapon during a fight. A road rage penalty enhancement was added to each count, according to a police booking affidavit. In addition, Lindsten was arrested for investigation of DUI, having an open container of alcohol in his vehicle and refusing a DUI test.
About 4 p.m. Tuesday, Lindsten was driving a Ford F-150 when he pointed a gun at another vehicle on I-15 north of Cedar City, the affidavit states. Two adults and two children were in that other vehicle.
A Utah Highway Patrol trooper spotted the pickup truck and pulled it over. Lindsten claimed the other driver had "brake-checked him, made hand gestures and pointed 'finger guns' at him," according to the affidavit.
Lindsten then "admitted to having retrieved a semi-automatic handgun and pointing it at the vehicle," the affidavit alleges.
Troopers searched Lindsten's truck and found one handgun between the driver's seat and center console, a second gun on the floorboards behind the center console and "an additional handgun, a rifle and a number of open alcoholic beverages," according to the arrest report.
He refused to participate in field sobriety tests so a warrant was obtained to draw his blood before he was booked into jail, according to police.
