Irvine
Woman Fights Off Attacker: A woman in her mid-20s walking to her car in the Airporter Inn parking lot Monday night was grabbed from behind but fought off her attacker, Irvine police said Tuesday. Given the woman’s description of the assailant and his car, police arrested a suspect 2 1/2 miles away at Dyer Road and the Costa Mesa Freeway about two hours after the attack. Officers identified the suspect as Cosma Eugen, 29, of Anaheim, who was booked into County Jail on suspicion of attempted rape. Police said neither the woman nor Eugen was injured.
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