LAKEPORT, Calif. – Four Kelseyville residents were arrested following several large fights at a Lakeport bar on Saturday night.

Arrested were Pablo Juan Arredondo, 29; Jose Antonio Rico, 31; Francisco Martinez Rico, 25; and Gerardo Rico Martinez, 24, according to a Monday report from Lakeport Police Chief Brad Rasmussen.

Rasmussen said that at 11 p.m. this past Saturday, Nov. 12, Lakeport Police Department units assisted by Lake County Sheriff’s Office deputies, California Highway Patrol officers and California State Parks rangers were dispatched to investigate the report of a large physical fight occurring at TJ’s Downtown Bar and Grill in Lakeport.

The first arriving Lakeport Police officer observed approximately 25 persons outside of the location with three separate physical fights, each involving numerous subjects and occurring at the same time, Rasmussen said.

He explained that the officer was contacted by TJ’s staff members who pointed out a group of four male subjects and identified them as assaulting both staff and patrons inside of the bar.

The officer approached the four subjects and ordered them to stop and go to the ground. Rasmussen said the subjects became verbally abusive and refused to follow the officer’s commands.

He said the officer made further attempts to control the four subjects who began resisting, obstructing and verbally and physically challenging him. At one point when two of the subjects advanced on the officer he discharged his Taser, striking one of them before they all fled the area, Rasmussen said.

Assisting units located the subjects in the area of Will-O-Point and all four were arrested for public intoxication, battery and obstructing or resisting a peace officer, according to Rasmussen.

Followup investigation determined that four TJ’s staff members were battered and injured by the four aforementioned subjects while investigating a report that they had harassed female customers. Rasmussen said the injuries consisted of lacerations, contusions, bite wounds and a broken finger.

The investigation of this incident is ongoing and anyone with information is asked to contact Officer Jarvis Leishman at the Lakeport Police Department, 707-263-5491.

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