A Royal Oaks man was taken into custody in Prunedale, after assaulting a bar patron on New Year’s Morning. Monterey County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 28-year-old Bruce Paul Clausen for allegedly assaulting a man who had been thrown out of the Country Kitchen Restaurant and Bar (on the 17-thousand-5-hundred block of Vierra Canyon Road). Clausen told deputies that the bar owner had asked him to help control unruly patrons, however he is accused of kicking the victim in the face, (causing serious facial bleeding), and was arrested for battery. The victim was treated at a local hospital.
