Police: Fight Over Peninsula Parking Space Ends With Beer Bottle Assault

A San Carlos resident is facing assault with a deadly weapon charges after he allegedly hit his neighbor with a glass beer bottle during a fight over a parking space, police said Tuesday.

The incident happened around 9 p.m. Monday, in the 500 block of Chestnut Street, according to San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office Spokeswoman Deputy Rebecca Rosenblatt.

According to the deputy, sheriff’s officials responded to the scene upon word of a 51-year-old San Carlos man who had been hit with a bottle.

“Further investigation revealed that a verbal argument over a parking issue had escalated into a physical fight between two neighbors, which culminated with the victim being struck above the eye with a glass beer bottle,“ Rosenblatt said.

The man was apparently struck so hard that he needed stitches to his head, she said.

While deputies were on scene talking to the San Carlos man, 32-year-old Alfredo Vega returned to the area and “...subsequently admitted his involvement,” Rosenblatt said.

Vega was arrested on a felony charge of assault with a deadly weapon and taken to the Redwood City jail, she said.