Crime & Safety

Downtown Walnut Creek Chaotic After Bar Closing Time; Two Arrested

Police respond to multiple calls of a fight involving more than two dozen people.

Two men were arrested in Walnut Creek early Sunday morning after a chaotic night involving multiple fights around local bars, police said.

The two arrests were in separate incidents that occurred within an hour of one another and several blocks apart. Both involved bars — Vice and 1515 — that have experienced violence in the past.

As the at 1251 Arroyo Way was closing for the night, police received multiple calls reporting a fight involving around 30 people outside the club, including reports of a stabbing.

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When police arrived shortly before 2 a.m. they found a chaotic scene on Arroyo Way between Broadway and Civic Drive with the streets full of people, including many who were just leaving the closing bar.

Police said 21-year-old Steven Enriquez-Wyatt of Bay Point had multiple lacerations on his arms. Police said witnesses told them that Enriquez-Wyatt had assaulted a woman, who wanted to place Enriquez-Wyatt under citizens arrest for assault.

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Officers confirmed the allegations and said he was injured when his arm went through a window during the fight.

Enriquez-Wyatt was taken to a Martinez hospital for treatment before being booked into Contra Costa County Jail on suspicion of battery and fighting in public. He is being held on $3,000 bail.

Police said they also interviewed another victim in a local emergency room with multiple lacerations.

Others fled the scene when the police arrived, and police said many people who remained in the area were uncooperative.

Around an hour earlier, at 12:43 a.m. Walnut Creek police officers
on foot patrol found a man bleeding from the head in front of at
1515 N. Main St.

The man told officers that he had been hit in the face with a glass during a fight inside the bar.

The officers found the man described, 26-year-old Arryan Moradkhani of Danville, nearby and arrested him on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. The victim was treated by paramedics for lacerations on his face.  Moradkhani was booked into Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez and is being held on $30,000 bail.

Both establishments are not new to downtown bar controversies. Last year police and city officials disagreed on how seriously stretched police staffing to its limits, and bar owners accused police of exaggerating the problem.

Police staffing shortages then became a political hot-button issue in the City officials have also wrestled with changing the rules for bars, including or for the required extra police presence.

Anyone who witnessed the Sunday morning incidents is asked to contact Walnut Creek Police Department, (925) 943-5844.

 


     


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