MONROVIA — A man is accused of assault with a deadly weapon and drug possession after intentionally striking another man with a car, then getting beaten up by his victim, police said.
Jorge Castillo, 44, of Simi Valley was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and drug possession following the incident, encounter, which unfolded just after 7 p.m. in a parking lot in the 900 block of West Huntington Drive, Monrovia police Lt. Michael Lee said.
The confrontation began when the 60-year-old victim asked the suspect to shut his car door to allow the victim’s girlfriend to get into his car, the lieutenant said. But the suspect refused, and the victim shut the door himself so his girlfriend could pass.
As the victim walked past again, the suspect opened the car door again, striking the victim, Lee said. The victim announced he was calling the police and attempted to take photograph of the suspect’s rear license plate.
The suspect then backed into the victim, knocking him to the ground, Lee said. He then yelled at the man as he lie on the ground and challenged him to fight.
But the victim “apparently knew a thing or two about fighting,” Lee said. He pummeled his attacker before the suspect fled. Police captured the suspect as he approached a nearby motel.
As police prepared to have the suspect’s car towed away because he was being arrested, they discovered more than 10 grams of a substance believed to be methamphetamine, as well as hundreds of prescription pills, which were primarily painkillers, Lee said.
The victim was not seriously injured, he added.