A woman reported missing in November from Monterey County was found in the East Bay on Tuesday after escaping from an alleged abuser, police said.
According to the Hercules Police Department, an officer was approached by a 33-year-old woman from Castroville who had just run from her boyfriend’s vehicle parked at the Safeway on San Pablo Avenue on Tuesday afternoon. The woman was frantic, barefoot, visibly injured and was pleading with the officer for help, police said.
The woman told the officer that her 25-year-old boyfriend had “aggressively pulled her hair, and threatened further physical harm to her,” and when she saw a Hercules police patrol vehicle, she saw the opportunity to flee, police said. She also told the officer that her boyfriend had hurt her in the past and she feared he would continue attacking her, according to police…