Local News in Brief : Man Convicted of Assault
A Northridge man was convicted Tuesday of punching out the eye of a city building inspector who told him his fence was too tall.
San Fernando Superior Court Judge Meredith Taylor ordered Samuel D. Duran, a 41-year-old auto mechanic, held without bail in County Jail pending his sentencing April 20. He could receive seven years in state prison on charges stemming from the May 11 attack on Calvin W. O’Daniels.
The fence surrounding Duran’s home still has not been lowered, said Jim Anderson, head of the San Fernando Valley investigations division of the Los Angeles building and safety department.
Duran was cited after neighbors complained that a cement-block section of the fence was unsafe because it exceeded the city’s 3 1/2-foot height limit by about three feet and motorists pulling out of his driveway do not have a clear view of pedestrians, authorities said.
Duran was convicted of one count each of mayhem and assault with a force likely to produce great bodily injury.
O’Daniels’ right eye had to be surgically removed.
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