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Petaluma, Calif.
Thomas Winz/Getty PhotosTwo Swedish vacationers had been discovered bleeding profusely of their automobile at a North Bay lodge Thursday morning, officers stated.
When police arrived on the Petaluma Greatest Western about 10 a.m., the 2 vacationers ran out of their automobile and instructed the officers {that a} man trapped them of their automobile and beat them, a Dec. 8 news release from the Petaluma Police Division stated.
As they had been sitting of their automobile ready to choose up a good friend from the lodge, they stated {that a} man blocked them along with his automobile and accused them of coming into his room. He then reportedly climbed within their automobile and brutally attacked them, knocking one particular person unconscious and breaking the opposite particular person’s nostril. Whereas he trapped them inside their automobile and assaulted them, he took their cellphones, demanding to see their contents, the information launch stated. The ordeal might have lasted an hour.
The Fairfield man — who “gave the impression to be delusional” and will have been beneath the affect of narcotics, in response to the discharge — accused the 2 vacationers of coming into his lodge room and stated that individuals had been drugging him.
The person was arrested on suspicion of theft, false imprisonment and battery leading to a severe damage, the discharge stated. He’s at the moment in custody on the Sonoma County Essential Grownup Detention Facility with bail posted at $250,000. The 2 people had been transported to a close-by hospital.
Petaluma is about 40 miles away from San Francisco in Sonoma County, an space widespread with vacationers as a consequence of its acclaimed food and wine.
Greatest Western representatives didn’t instantly reply to SFGATE’s request for remark.
