The man accused of assaulting and kidnapping Elie Wiesel -- attempted kidnapping, false imprisonment, battery, stalking, elder abuse and hate crimes, to be exact -- changed his not guilty plea to one of insanity today. Earlier this year, if you recall, Eric Hunt, 23, stalked and dragged the Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust survivor from an elevator at the Argent Hotel (recently re-branded Westin San Francisco Market Street, even though it's totally located on......

Currently on sabbatical at the psychiatric unit of San Francisco County jailhouse for trying to beat the holy hell out of Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel -- and also hopped up on meds to soothe his lack of mental clarity , which supposedly triggered the violent incident -- the apologetic 23-year-old Eric Hunt will go to trial on September 4. Staring down the barrel of six felony charges -- i.e., attempted battery, stalking, kidnapping,......

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San Francisco's trying to be a better host this time around -- Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and the author of Night, is back in town to accept a $250,000 award from the Koret Foundation on behalf of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, and this time, we're going to take better care of him. You may remember when Wiesel was in San Francisco earlier this year for a peace conference, a......

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In an unusual turn of events, the SFPD announced they actually have a suspect in the attack on Elie Wiesel last week. What were the odds? They, however, won't say who it is, where they are, and how they uncovered the suspect. Nor will they say who helped them out or are helping them out. All they are saying is that it's a suspect in his 20's living somewhere in the East Coast. Whether or not it's the "Eric Hunt" who has been posting about stalking Wiesel, they are also not saying. Yes, it sounds kind of lame but considering they haven't arrested the guy yet, maybe it's a good thing they're not out there saying things like "oh, the suspect's real name is Joe Schlabotnik of 45 Cedar Drive of Poughkeepsie New York." ...

Nobel Prize winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel was assaulted in a San Francisco hotel on February 1st by a Holocaust denier. Wiesel was in town-- irony alert-- for a Peace Conference. He was staying at the Argent Hotel and was apparently being stalked. When the man got into the same elevator with Wiesel, he asked to talk to him and when Wiesel told him he'd do it in the lobby instead of the elevator, the man dragged him out of the elevator and tried to drag him into a room. When Wiesel started screaming for help, the man ran off, freeing the author. Soon after, the cops came and escorted Wiesel to the airport where he promptly got the hell out of town. ...