New London police have arrested a man accused of holding a 28-year-old woman against her will at a local hotel for hours, beating her and stabbing her before she got away.
Police said the victim broke free and was running down Colman Street, bleeding and crying, just before 9:30 a.m. Monday when someone saw her and called authorities.
The woman told police she had been restrained at the Red Roof Inn, at 707 Colman Street, where her attacker stabbed her and struck her over and over. She provided investigators with a description of the man responsible and the vehicle he was driving.
Police arrested Dennis Parrish, 49, at his home on Boulder Drive and charged him with second-degree assault and first-degree unlawful restraint.
Authorities believe the woman he attacked in New London, who suffered non-life threatening injuries, might have been his second victim.
Parrish is being held on $100,000.
