When a late-night stroll in a Fort Collins park become an assault Sunday, one lady’s canine got here to her rescue, biting her attacker and giving her the chance to flee.
Officers responded to a suspicious circumstance report Sunday after 911 dispatchers acquired a name from a lady round 11 p.m. who might be heard yelling at a person to get off of her, mentioned Fort Collins police spokesperson J. Gilmore.
Dispatchers have been capable of hint the sufferer’s telephone to Lee Martinez Group Park, Gilmore mentioned.
Officers made contact with the unidentified lady on the park, and she or he pointed them to a person trailing behind her, Gilmore mentioned. She informed officers she had been fending the person off for 20 minutes when her canine bit him within the face, permitting her to flee.
Particulars concerning the canine’s age, breed and title weren’t out there.
The sufferer had no prior relationship with the suspect, Gilmore mentioned. The person arrived in Fort Collins from Boulder on Friday and had been residing within the park.
Fort Collins cops arrested 39-year-old Seth Estabrooks with out resistance on suspicion of three felony costs: second-degree assault, strangulation; illegal sexual contact with power or menace; and false imprisonment by power.
He’s being held on the Larimer County Jail with a court docket date set for Might 14.
Estabrooks has beforehand been convicted in Boulder County for obstructing a peace officer, theft, menacing, felony menacing with a weapon, felony mischief and drug possession.
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