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The man who allegedly attacked a Fox 6 reporter, Assed “Sam” Suleiman, was arrested Friday night after a tense stand-off with police. Sulieman allegedly fled from a patrol officer who was called for a court-order violation in the 7400 block of Draper Avenue in La Jolla. That patrolman called for backup when Suleiman ran into a nearby unoccupied office building. His wife Rosa Barraza and her step-daughter also were at the scene. Barraza was taken into custody for questioning while her 5-year-old step daughter remained with Sam Sulieman in the building. The standoff which began around 5:30 p.m. lasted into...

NANCEE E. LEWIS / Union-Tribune TV reporter John Mattes still showed the signs of his on-camera beating. A widely viewed video of the attack has made him an accidental celebrity. San Diego TV reporter John Mattes was hard at work this week, calling sources and chasing stories, even while convalescing from the bloody on-camera beating that turned him into an accidental celebrity. His body still aches pretty much everywhere. He has scratches on his face, human bite marks on his hands and arms, several cracked ribs and whiplashlike symptoms in his back. His gouged left eye socket remains tender...

A San Diego T-V reporter required hospital treatment after being attacked by a man and wife he was investigating for a news show. Fox Six News San Diego says investigative journalist John Mattes suffered cracked ribs, bite wounds and cuts to his face during yesterday's incident which was captured on film and ended with two arrests. Mattes was working on a story about alleged real estate fraudster Sam Suleiman. Mattes and cameraman Dennis Waldrop were interviewing a man outside a house in San Diego's La Jolla neighborhood when, alerted to the crew's presence by an associate, Sulieman's wife Rosa Baraza...

An investigative reporter for a Fox station in San Diego California ended up in the hospital after being attacked on the job by the same people he was investigating. According to the Fox station, investigative journalist John Mattes is an attorney and reporter known for his tenacity in tracking down cases of deception and consumer fraud. It was one such story John was working on when he was viciously attacked by a man who had been making threats for weeks. Police say the attacker is Sam Suleiman and his wife Rosa. The dramatic footage shows the woman verbally attacking Mattes...