SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- A man suspected of attacking Holocaust chronicler Elie Wiesel in a San Francisco hotel was arrested Saturday in New Jersey.
Eric Hunt was picked up by local police at his father's house in Montgomery, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. He faces a long list of charges in California, including attempted kidnapping, false imprisonment, elder abuse, stalking, battery and the commission of a hate crime.
Wiesel told police that a man confronted him in an elevator at the Argent Hotel on Feb. 1, saying he wanted to interview him. Wiesel said that he agreed to talk in the lobby but began screaming when the man tried to force him out of the elevator and into a hotel room.
Hunt, or someone using his name, posted an account of the assault on neo-Nazi Web sites. He said he wanted to convince Wiesel, a Nobel Prize laureate, Holocaust survivor and author of more than 40 books, to admit that mass killings of Jews did not occur.
Police found Hunt's car in the parking garage at the Argent.
