{"id":741,"date":"2026-05-16T21:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T04:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losangelesmovinginsider.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/suspect-in-fatal-assault-in-midway-district-arrested-in-arizona\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T21:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T04:32:20","slug":"suspect-in-fatal-assault-in-midway-district-arrested-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losangelesmovinginsider.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/suspect-in-fatal-assault-in-midway-district-arrested-in-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in fatal assault in Midway District arrested in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>A man was arrested in Arizona last week for an outstanding San Diego County arrest warrant related to the fatal assault of a 68-year-old man in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/losangelesmovinginsider.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/photos-pnk-at-petco-park\/\">Photos: P!nk at Petco Park<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Noel Frischknecht, 60, is a suspect in an October assault in the Midway District near the intersection of Midway Drive and Wing Street that led to the death of Brian Salatino, 68, said the San Diego Police Department. He was\u00a0arrested last Saturday in an isolated stretch of desert in Arizona near the Nevada and Utah borders.<\/p>\n<p>Salatino remained in a coma for roughly 100 days before he died, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Frischknecht was found in a trailer and was arrested by the Mohave County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. The sheriff\u2019s office produced a dramatic video of the capture on its Facebook page, complete with rock music, drone footage of the trailer, body camera footage and Frischknecht taken into custody without resisting arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/losangelesmovinginsider.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/photos-graduates-of-cal-state-san-marcos\/\">Photos: Graduates of Cal State San Marcos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He remains in jail in Mohave County and extradition proceedings are ongoing to return him to San Diego, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/losangelesmovinginsider.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/owl-found-stuck-in-a-concrete-mixer-is-on-the-mend-and-flying-free\/\">Owl found stuck in a concrete mixer is on the mend and flying free<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noel Frischknecht, 60, is a suspect in an October 2025 assault in the Midway District<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-and-public-safety"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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