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N.J. Man Arrested in Attack on Wiesel

Saturday, February 17, 2007 10:34:47 PM
By JASON DEAREN

  This is a file photo of Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel speaking to members of the media after addressing members of the Security Council on the crisis in Darfur, in a Thursday, Sept. 14, 2006 photo, at United Nations headquarters. Police on Friday issued an arrest warrant for a New Jersey man suspected of roughing up Nobel laureate and Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel at a San Francisco hotel earlier this month. The warrant for 22-year-old Eric Hunt includes charges for attempted kidnapping, false imprisonment, elder abuse, stalking, battery and committing a hate crime, police said. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A man accused of roughing up Nobel laureate and Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel at a San Francisco hotel earlier this month was arrested Saturday, authorities said.

Montgomery Township police arrested Eric Hunt, 22, of Sussex County, N.J., at 1:30 p.m. EST Saturday. He faces charges that include attempted kidnapping, false imprisonment, elder abuse, stalking, battery and the commission of a hate crime, according to San Francisco police.

He was being held without bail in the Somerset County Jail in New Jersey, awaiting extradition to San Francisco.


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