Police Arrest Multiple Suspects After Tuesday Brawl

Police arrested a number of suspects involved in a brawl on Tuesday afternoon in Hercules after some of them tried to flee in a vehicle and nearly crashed, police said. Hercules police reported that at 3:37 p.m. Tuesday an officer encountered a fight between two 14-year-old girls and a 39-year-old woman on Sycamore Avenue, east of Refugio Valley Road.

When the officer failed to disrupt the scuffle with verbal commands, the officer attempted to apprehend one of the teenage girls and handcuff her. But the fight continued, with the other juvenile still swinging at the partially restrained suspect and the officer, police said.

When the officer switched to handcuffing that juvenile instead, the two other suspects and a 25-year-old man standing nearby got into a vehicle and tried to flee, police said. The male driver drove through a red traffic signal, heading west on Sycamore Avenue.

Police said he almost caused a collision. Other officers on San Pablo Avenue near state Highway 4 stopped the vehicle, according to police. Donte Thomas, of Richmond, was arrested on suspicion of felony evading and reckless driving. He also had an outstanding warrant out of Vallejo.

Police said the woman, Antioch resident Danitra Hollister, was arrested on counts of battering, resisting and delaying an officer and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Hollister and Thomas were booked into Martinez Detention Facility. The teenage girl in the car was Hollister’s daughter, according to police. Officers determined that she had been influenced by her mother and was the least involved party in the incident. The other teen, who had already been taken into custody, was arrested on suspicion of battery and resisting and delaying an officer.

By Bay City News