A report of a man stalking an 18-year-old woman in Solvang eventually led to the suspect being pursued in a vehicle by officers and on foot by a K-9 officer, fighting with the dog and being hit with a stun gun before ultimately being arrested.
About 10 p.m. Saturday, the woman told Santa Barbara County sheriff s deputies she was being followed by a man in a blue Ford Raptor who had attempted to open the passenger door of her car while she was parked in the 1700 block of Laurel Avenue in Solvang.
Fearing she was about to be carjacked and kidnapped, she had accelerated away, but the man followed her in the pickup, according to the media report from the sheriff s Solvang substation.