By Blake Theisen / KVSC News Director / @btheisen24

A Waite Park man was arrested on charges of 2^nd Degree Assault after chasing after 3 kids with a knife.

According to a Waite Park Police Department media release, police received a report of a man with a machete who had been chasing after kids near the 200 block of 3^rd Street South. While searching for that suspect, police received another report from another man claiming that someone was pointing a gun at them at the same address.

Officers discovered that the man with the machete was 28-year-old Matthew Arid Olson. Olson told officers that he had been chopping down a tree with a machete over the past few days. Today however, Olson had been using a knife to chop down the tree.

While Olson was chopping down the tree, he saw three kids playing and chased after them with the knife. One of the kids told a parent about the situation, who then confronted Olsen and brandished a gun at him.

Olson was taken into the Stearns County Jail following the altercation.