A man mining a gold claim ended up in jail after allegedly assaulting his father and threatening to kill himself and everyone in his family. Erik Elliott Garmisch, 30, was out at the gold-mining camp off You Bet and Red Dog roads with his 50-year-old father Tuesday when he got angry and started destroying equipment, said Nevada County Sheriff Keith Royal. His father tried to calm him down by offering to take him to town and buy him some beers for his birthday, Royal said. But after they returned to the camp, Garmisch allegedly got angry again, pushed his father …















