Scott Mende News Today

A Lakeside man sentenced in multiple cases over the summer is back in county jail after allegedly attacking his girlfriend Jan. 4 and trying to grab a deputy’s gun during his subsequent arrest.

James Scott Mende, 37, struck a plea deal with prosecutors wrapping three cases together just weeks after authorities arrested him in early March for allegedly drunkenly trying to force his way into a closed saloon in Lakeside.

James Scott Mende, 37, pleaded guilty by way of an Alford plea to a single count of threats and other improper influence in official and political matters in relation to his March 9 arrest.