Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Woman faces deportation after purse-bashing beau

Prosecutors declined to file domestic abuse charges against a young woman accused of punching and hitting her boyfriend with a purse during a beach outing, but she may face deportation, police said.

Aracely Lopez, 19, of Paramount, was arrested yesterday afternoon, after an officer on patrol in the area of Cliff Drive, north of Heisler Park in Laguna Beach, reported seeing her hit a young man repeatedly.

The patrolman "hits his record button and captures her hitting him with her purse," said Laguna Beach police Sgt. Jason Kravetz.



The man, later identified as her boyfriend, was hit both with the purse and punched at least three times, Kravetz said.

"He was red" where he was hit, but "there was no blood or anything," the sergeant said.

The woman and her boyfriend had apparently driven to Laguna Beach for a day at the shore with several friends, and at some point an argument broke out.

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