Riverbank deputies arrest man brandishing machete

Riverbank Police Services Deputies arrested a man for brandishing a machete in what turned out to be a suicide-by-cop attempt last Friday.

Deputies were called out to the corner of Terminal Ave. and California Ave. for a man waving a machete and yelling at people passing by.

When they arrived at the scene, Joshua Bryll, 29, was standing near the roadway and appeared intoxicated. In the bushes next to Bryll was a machete.

When deputies tried to speak with Bryll he told them to stay in their patrol cars and not come near him, or he would have to kill them.

Bryll took off his shirt, pulled the machete from the bushes and began to wave it around.

Bryll began to walk onto the roadway as deputies tried to get him to drop the machete and surrender. Deputies believed deployed a Taser and Bryll was taken into custody.

Deputies later learned that Bryll had wanted the deputies to kill him and had pulled out the machete so they would shoot him.

Joshua Bryll was booked at Stanislaus County Jail for brandishing a weapon other than a firearm, resisting arrest and public intoxication.

This story was originally published May 25, 2016 at 9:09 AM with the headline "Riverbank deputies arrest man brandishing machete."