BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — The Bakersfield Police Department arrested 28-year-old Anthony Brennan Herrera Tuesday morning on suspicion of residential burglary, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and elder abuse following the attack of an elderly woman in Central Bakersfield.
According to BPD, jut after 5 a.m. Tuesday in the area of Hubbard and Spruce streets, officers responded to reports of a residential burglary in progress. When officers arrived, they discovered an 85-year-old woman suffering from a laceration to the head and injuries consistent with battery.
BPD said the woman was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Further investigation showed Herrera allegedly entered the woman's home through a ground floor window while the victim and another resident were sleeping.
Herrera allegedly entered the woman's bedroom and assaulted her with a glass bottle. He then fled the home when the other adult resident confronted him, BPD said.
Herrera was apprehended several blocks away from the crime scene and booked in the Kern County Jail on felony charges. He is due in court on Thursday at 3 p.m.
