CLEARLAKE, Calif. – A Clearlake man has been taken into custody based on allegations of sexual assault.
Scott Coleman Anderson, 48, was arrested on Wednesday morning, according to Sgt. Nick Bennett of the Clearlake Police Department.
At 2:40 a.m. Wednesday Clearlake Police officers were dispatched to St. Helena Hospital Clear Lake on a report of a female who had been brought there and was possibly a victim of a sexual assault, Bennett said.
Officers determined the 51-year-old female had been found lying alongside the road by a passing motorist in the area of Arrowhead Road and Colusa Street, according to Bennett.
Bennett said an initial investigation by Officer Brad Middleton indicated the alleged victim had been at a residence on Arrowhead Drive earlier and the male occupant of the residence began to make advances toward her. When she resisted those advances, the suspect forced himself on her and sexually assaulted her.
The alleged victim was finally able to flee the residence and fell to the ground a short distance from the residence. There she was seen by the passing motorist who picked her up and took her to the hospital, Bennett said.
Clearlake detectives were called in to take over the investigation. Bennett said further investigation resulted in the arrest of Anderson, who resides on Arrowhead Road.
Anderson was booked into Lake County Jail on felony charges of rape by force, oral copulation, sexual penetration with a foreign object and sexual battery. Bail was set at $100,000, according to jail records.
Bennett said Clearlake Police acknowledged and thanked the Lake County Rape Crises Center for its assistance in this case.