Scott Peterson held in wife's death
One witness to the arrest said two officers, one with his gun drawn and wearing a bulletproof vest, warned him away from the golf course as he arrived to work just after 11 a.m.
Steve Osetek, the manager of the golf course's driving range, said he saw police arrest a tall man with dark hair. Osetek was unaware the man was Scott Peterson.
"At first I thought it was somebody famous, because we get a lot of famous people here," Osetek said.
Modesto homicide investigators spent much of the week listening to court-approved wiretaps and following Peterson, who had stayed out of public view since the body of his wife and the fetus were discovered. "We thought it was important to keep track of Scott," the police chief said. Lockyer said Peterson had waved at detectives and was "being kind of a smart aleck" before the arrest.