Man Invited to Apartment from Bar Steals Car After Badly Beating Resident

HUNTINGTON BEACH —  Police are looking for a man suspected of severely beating a local resident Saturday morning and stealing his car.

Daniel Yakush, 38, who had been beaten in the face and upper torso, was found by police and paramedics, who received a 4:08 a.m. call that he had been attacked in his apartment in the 21000 block of Brookhurst Avenue, Sgt. William Peterson said.

Yakush was taken to Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach where he was treated and released, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Yakush told police that he met the unidentified man in a bar earlier in the evening and had invited the man, described as tall, blond and his early 30s, to his apartment.

“After an argument, (Yakush) was beaten,” Peterson said.

The attacker then fled with Yakush’s dark blue Toyota Celica, license number 2LOD702, Peterson.

Anyone with information about the man or the car is asked to call the Huntington Beach Police Department at (714) 536-5951 or (714) 960-8811, Peterson said.