Police: Underwear-clad burglar whacks man with sausage

Police: Underwear-clad burglar whacks man with sausage

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Story Published: Sep 7, 2008 at 6:21 PM PDT

Story Updated: Nov 21, 2008 at 1:50 AM PDT

By Associated Press

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Fresno County authorities have arrested a man they say broke into the home of two farmworkers, rubbed one with spices and whacked the other with a sausage before fleeing.

Fresno County sheriff's Lt. Ian Burrimond says 22-year-old Antonio Vasquez was found hiding in a field wearing only a T-shirt, boxers and socks after the Saturday morning attack.

Burrimond said Vasquez was arrested after deputies found a wallet containing his ID at the ransacked house just east of Fresno.

The victims told deputies they awoke Saturday morning to the stranger applying spices to one of them and striking the other with an 8-inch sausage.

Burrimond said money allegedly stolen in the burglary was recovered.

The sausage was tossed away by the fleeing suspect and eaten by a dog.

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