Beat-Up CHP Officer Gets Out of Hospital
A California Highway Patrol officer attacked by a motorcyclist during a routine traffic stop has been released from the hospital, investigators said Monday.
“He’s doing fine,” Officer Katrina Lundgren, a spokeswoman for the CHP, said of Sgt. Jim Nellis.
Nellis suffered moderate head injuries early Sunday, when the leather-clad motorcyclist attacked him after being stopped on Ortega Highway just east of San Juan Capistrano for driving without a license plate. The attacker and a companion then fled toward Riverside County, investigators said.
No one has been arrested in the case, Steve Doan, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, said Monday. “We do have suspects,” he said, “but nobody is in custody yet.”
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