MANKATO — Charges against a Buffalo Lake resident allege he hit a man over the head with a Hennessy bottle at a Mankato hotel in September.
Trent Jon Weispfennig, 24, was charged with two felonies for second-degree assault Friday in Blue Earth County District Court.
A criminal complaint states the alleged incident occurred on Sept. 8. A man told police about it after a hotel manager reported him being covered in blood in the lobby.
After coming to the hotel to meet a woman, the man said, Weispfennig confronted him with the bottle. Broken shards of it were in the parking lot, according to the complaint.
The woman told police she suspected Weispfennig took her phone and lured the man to the hotel. Police reportedly reviewed messages between the victim and the woman, describing them as “unusual” and suggestive of someone other than the woman using the phone around the time of the incident.
Weispfennig’s initial appearance in court is set for April 17.