Woman stabs boyfriend, hurls beer cans at deputies trying to save him, California cops say
A woman was arrested after her boyfriend was found bleeding in the middle of a highway, California deputies say.
A deputy found a man on the roadway of Highway 246 in Buellton just before 2 a.m. Sunday, March 30, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
As the deputy helped the man from the roadway, he noticed the man had multiple stab wounds and cuts on his body, the sheriff’s office said.
The man told the deputy his girlfriend, who was at a nearby home, had stabbed him, according to the sheriff’s office.
Deputies were helping the man and trying to control his bleeding when the man’s girlfriend, Lydia Alicia Gonzales, 40, came out of the home and “threw cans of beer at them,” the sheriff’s office said.
Despite her “being extremely combative,” deputies quickly took Gonzales into custody, the sheriff’s office said.
First responders took the man to a hospital, where he was in stable condition, deputies said.
Gonzales was booked into jail on multiple felony counts, including attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and domestic violence, according to deputies.
She is being held on $1 million bail, deputies said.
Buellton is about a 130-mile drive northwest from Los Angeles.
