Police Arrest Man Following Assault on Woman in Eagle Rock

Police arrested a 21-year-old man who allegedly assaulted a woman with a crowbar on Floristan Avenue late Tuesday—and the suspect’s father blamed the attack on marijuana, possibly combined with other drugs, that he said his son had been consuming.

The incident occurred at around 6 p.m., LAPD Sgt. Yasir Gillanni told Patch near the scene of the crime, adding that the victim alerted police after she followed the suspect to his house on the 1600 block of Fair Park Avenue, just west of the Vincent Avenue intersection and a block north of Yosemite Drive, near .

The victim was hospitalized and is in a stable condition, Gillanni said. (Gillanni did not disclose to Patch what the deadly weapon was, but Lt. Teresa Gutierrez, the watch commander at the Northeast Community Station, said that the weapon was a crowbar.)

Police arrested the suspect from his multi-storied house, located next to a hill on a cul-de-sac, shortly after the victim called in. About 10 uniformed officers in three squad cars as well as several officers in plainclothes were standing outside the house, along with members of the suspect’s family, as of 7:45 p.m.

The family was ordered out as officers waited for a detective to arrive so that they could collect evidence from the house, Gillanni told Patch.

Juan Garza, a general contractor who said he is the suspect’s father, told Patch that his son, whom he identified as Isaac, had been consuming medical marijuana obtained from one of the dispensaries in Eagle Rock.

“I was telling the police they are guilty of the situation, too, because they allow all of this garbage to be given to the kids,” he said. "Maybe there is another type of drug—when they mix it, they don't know what they're doing." He added: “My son was really affected with the things these people allow—and I am very affected by it.”

Sgt. Gillanni told Patch, however, that to the best of his knowledge, there were no drugs involved in the assault.

Stay tuned for further updates about this incident.