Update on 2/13/26 at 11:22 am: Providing an update on the arrest that occurred in the earlier story, the Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office reports, “We received correspondence from the Tuolumne County District Attorney’s Office that they would not be filing charges on Cole Burton, and his arrest will now show as a detention only. The District Attorney’s Office has declined to file charges on anyone else related to the incident.”
Original story posted 2/12/26 at 3:44 pm: Phoenix Lake, CA – A Sonora man allegedly involved in a fight at a Phoenix Lake area residence ended up arrested several days later.
The Tuolumne County Sheriff’s dispatch received a report of two men in a physical fight at a home off Phoenix Lake Road between Elizabeth Lane and Creekside Drive in the Phoenix Lake area of Tuolumne County. The fight was reportedly broken up, but due to their injuries, one of the men decided to report it to law enforcement.
According to sheriff’s officials, “All parties left the residence that night, but based on medical checks in the following days, one party wanted to press charges.”
Following the report, 21-year-old Cole Jeffry Burton was arrested for felony assault/battery with serious bodily injury during the follow-up investigation. He was placed on $50,000 bail.
