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Maine man attacked; wakes to find car, dog gone
NEWPORT - Police are seeking the public's help in solving a daytime carjacking that left a Maine man injured and without his Ford Explorer or his pet dog.
The incident occurred last Friday afternoon at King Park on Wellington Avenue. A 66-year-old man reported that he was putting his dog into his 1995 Ford Explorer when a dark-skinned man attacked him from behind.
The assailant, who was wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt, tan pants and a dark-colored watch cap, put his arm around the victim's neck and choked him until he lost consciousness, police said.
"He believes there was a second person (present) because the suspect that was choking him was speaking to another individual," Lt
. Michael Brennan said this morning.
When the victim regained consciousness, his SUV and his dog - a blonde, medium-size collie named Sidney - were gone.
"He also had $300 taken from him from a money pack that was strapped to the oxygen tank that he was pulling," said Brennan, the Police Department's public information officer.
A passing motorist saw the victim lying on the sidewalk near King Park Beach. The man stopped to assist and called 911 at 2:16 p.m.
A minute earlier, police had received an anonymous call from a man reporting that two black men were beating an elderly man on Wellington Avenue. The call was made from the pay phone at nearby Wellington Square, Brennan said.
"We would like to speak to the individual who placed the anonymous call in hopes of gaining a better description of the assailants," Brennan said.
When police arrived, they found the victim, conscious and complaining of an ankle injury, on the ground with his portable oxygen tank nearb
y. A Newport Fire Department rescue crew brought him to Newport Hospital, where he underwent treatment.
The man said he had driven from Maine to visit a relative in Portsmouth.
"He was visiting his granddaughter who is expecting a baby," Brennan said.
Neither the Ford Explorer nor the female collie has been seen since Friday. Police put out a national broadcast with information about the vehicle, which is green and has a white cargo carrier on the roof.
Maine man attacked; wakes to find car, dog gone
NEWPORT - Police are seeking the public's help in solving a daytime carjacking that left a Maine man injured and without his Ford Explorer or his pet dog.
The incident occurred last Friday afternoon at King Park on Wellington Avenue. A 66-year-old man reported that he was putting his dog into his 1995 Ford Explorer when a dark-skinned man attacked him from behind.
The assailant, who was wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt, tan pants and a dark-colored watch cap, put his arm around the victim's neck and choked him until he lost consciousness, police said.
"He believes there was a second person (present) because the suspect that was choking him was speaking to another individual," Lt
. Michael Brennan said this morning.
When the victim regained consciousness, his SUV and his dog - a blonde, medium-size collie named Sidney - were gone.
"He also had $300 taken from him from a money pack that was strapped to the oxygen tank that he was pulling," said Brennan, the Police Department's public information officer.
A passing motorist saw the victim lying on the sidewalk near King Park Beach. The man stopped to assist and called 911 at 2:16 p.m.
A minute earlier, police had received an anonymous call from a man reporting that two black men were beating an elderly man on Wellington Avenue. The call was made from the pay phone at nearby Wellington Square, Brennan said.
"We would like to speak to the individual who placed the anonymous call in hopes of gaining a better description of the assailants," Brennan said.
When police arrived, they found the victim, conscious and complaining of an ankle injury, on the ground with his portable oxygen tank nearb
y. A Newport Fire Department rescue crew brought him to Newport Hospital, where he underwent treatment.
The man said he had driven from Maine to visit a relative in Portsmouth.
"He was visiting his granddaughter who is expecting a baby," Brennan said.
Neither the Ford Explorer nor the female collie has been seen since Friday. Police put out a national broadcast with information about the vehicle, which is green and has a white cargo carrier on the roof.
