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The victim was a 25-year-old man, the alleged assailant a 20-year-old woman,  5 feet 3 inches tall and weighing about 140 pounds. He ended up in the hospital, she went to jail.

It started about 6 p.m. on the evening of Saturday, June 27, when police got a call from Sonoma Valley Hospital about an assault victim. When they arrived they found the man with lacerations, bruises and scratches and a tale of domestic bliss gone bad. According to the victim, his girlfriend of the past year got belligerent when he refused to give her a beer because she wasn't yet 21. She then slapped him in the face, he claimed, and told him, "OK, I'll find someone who will buy me beer." At that point he tried to block her way, she hit him with her bag, kicked him in the groin and scratched him with a knife, he claimed. She called him an expletive, he called her the same expletive, she began to hit him with an X-Box controller and he called her a violent expletive.

So she began hitting him with hair straighteners, a procedure police weren't able to fully explain, and, he claimed, threw his personal items down the stairs of their apartment. Then, he said, she attempted to strangle him with the cord of a cell-phone charger.

At that point he abandoned the field of battle and went to the hospital for treatment of his apparently superficial wounds.

After hearing his story, police went to the apartment and questioned the girlfriend who had apparently not yet found someone else to buy her beer. She described her behavior as self-defense, readily admitted he did not harm her, but that he was blocking her way. Asked about the alleged knife she said she didn't know about that.

Police charged her with felony battery and booked her into the county jail.

In other incidents reported to local law enforcement:

Saturday, June 26:

11:24 p.m. - A 24-year-old Napa man drove through the stop sign on East Napa Street at Broadway, was pulled over by police and exhibited the objective signs of intoxication. He also had no California driver's license, showing instead a Mexican consular ID. The man did poorly on a field sobriety test, registered .15 percent blood alcohol on a preliminary breath test, opted for a blood test at Sonoma Valley Hospital, and was subsequently charged with DUI and booked into the Sonoma County jail.

Sunday, June 28:

1:29 p.m. - A woman called police to report that someone may have drugged her on the night of Friday, June 26, at a local tavern where she had consumed one drink, brought to her by a white male dressed like a cowboy, with blond hair. She claimed that after consuming the drink she felt "weird," went to the rest room and then couldn't remember much of the rest of the evening, although she said she thought her friends took her to another saloon, where she drank nothing, and then took her home.

There she encountered her mother, and acted incoherently, but insisted she wasn't drunk and might have been drugged. Her mother immediately took her to Sonoma Valley Hospital for a battery of tests to identify any known drugs, but no evidence of any known drug showed up, she told police, explaining that she was reporting the incident for her mother's benefit. Then, she added, the hospital test did reveal a blood alcohol level of .213, a level high enough to render some people unconscious. Police were puzzled by the young women's attempts to explain her behavior and took no further action.

Monday, June 29:

12:55 a.m. - In a case with more twists than a Russian novel, police were called to a West Napa Street saloon after patrons saw a young woman with blond hair, escorted by five or six men, get into a maroon Chevy Blazer and leave the premises. Employees explained to police they were concerned the woman might not have left on her own volition. Police promptly began a late night search for the vehicle and soon found it at a Highway 12 gas station in the Springs, with three men inside who said there had been no woman in their car and that they had come to the station's convenience store to buy beer. At this point police learned that witnesses at the saloon where the incident began had been confused about the car in which the blond woman departed. At least one witness saw her get into a white Volkswagen Passat and provided the first three digits of the license plate number. By remarkable coincidence, police spotted that precise car sitting in a parking stall at the same gas station as the Bronco.

When they approached the car, they found the blond woman at the wheel with two male passengers. The officer immediately inquired about the woman's welfare. She said she was fine and that the two men in the car were her friends. That claim sprung a leak when she couldn't provide either of their names. In that case, the woman explained, they were actually all going to her house "to party." "All" apparently also included the occupants of the Blazer who had stopped to purchase supplies for the party. Police then identified one of the men in the Passat as being on searchable probation for a vandalism charge, one condition of which being that he not consume alcohol. It appeared to the officers that the man had been doing some serious imbibing, he admitted to two beers and blew a .16 blood alcohol level on a preliminary breath test. Meanwhile, the blond woman also appeared to be well-lit, and began exhibiting what police referred to as "highly inappropriate" behavior, which included calling an officer, "Sweetie" and "Honey." When asked, she claimed to have consumed "one beer" from 10 p.m. to midnight, but then registered a lofty blood alcohol level of .194 on the field breath test and a subsequent .17 on the digital tester in the station house. So instead of a party, the 32-year-old Sonoma woman was charged with DUI and booked into county jail, along with her new, 27-year-old party friend, who was charged with probation violation.

7:51 a.m. - Police investigated a vandalism report at St. Francis Solano School where someone had fired a pellet gun at least 12 times at a set of dual-pane windows on the side of the building facing the school's parking lot. The outer panes of the window were broken, but the inner panes remained intact. Damage was estimated at more than $400, making the crime a felony.

12:07 p.m. - Police were called to Sonoma Market where a 20-year-old skateboarder was being held after walking out with two $8 packets of an herb called kombucha, said to have originated in China as an effective digestive aid and liver cleanser. The store's loss prevention officer told police the young man was suspected of previous theft and was observed holding his skateboard and putting the herbs in his pocket, then walking to the check-out counter where he started to pay for two bottled drinks, but then left them on the counter and departed the store. Questioned about his behavior the man said he wasn't sure whether or not he had his wallet in his pocket and so went out to the parking lot to see if "his friend" had it. Asked why he didn't first just look in his own pocket, he said, "Oh just forget it." The man was on probation from a prior theft and was scheduled to begin a 15-day jail term July 1. He was booked into the county jail.

2:33 p.m. - Police received a report that the owner of a 2007 Mercedes CLK convertible found her car had been egged sometime during the night of June 13. By the time she discovered the damage, the eggs had already eaten through the car's paint in two places. She made the report at the request of her insurance company.

Tuesday, July 1:

1:40 p.m. - A Sonoma man reported that he left his wallet in his unlocked car on Fourth Street East during the night of Tuesday, June 30, and retuned the next day to discover it missing. The wallet contained a debit card, a driver's license and a social security card.

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