3 December 2012, at approx. 6:51 pm, Officers from the Sonora Police
Department responded to an apartment complex located on the 200 block of
Greenley Rd., regarding an assault.
When officers arrived, they contacted the victim Laura
Mansfield, 22 of Sonora, and several witnesses. Mansfield and witnesses
related that Mansfield had gone to an apartment to retrieve a pair of
socks from a female subject. While at the apartment a verbal altercation
erupted between Mansfield and the other female.
Then for no apparent reason, the female’s boyfriend, Timothy
Barlass, 19 of Sonora, charged Mansfield and punched her in the face
knocking her to the ground. Once Mansfield was on the ground, Barlass
continued to punch and kick Mansfield. At one point Barlass grabbed
Mansfield’s head and slammed it into a door several times. The attack
left Mansfield unconscious for approx. five minutes according to
witnesses.
Mansfield was transported by ambulance to Sonora Regional
Medical Center for treatment. Barlass was contacted and taken into
custody without incident. He was transported to the Tuolumne County Jail
and booked for felony battery resulting if great bodily injury.
The investigation into this matter is continuing.
