A Carson City man remained in custody Monday after allegedly brutalizing his girlfriend and keeping her locked up in a closet, according to the arrest report.

Esiquio Hernandez, 33, was arrested at 4:40 p.m. Saturday on suspicion of felony mayhem, battery with a deadly weapon, battery with substantial bodily harm, third-offense domestic battery, false imprisonment and misdemeanor obstructing.

According to the arrest report, a deputy was called out to the 900 block of Saliman Road on a report of a domestic dispute. When the deputy knocked, no one answered, but witnesses came forward to report they saw a man from the apartment shove a woman to the ground and then drag her kicking and screaming back inside.

The officer then pounded on the door and from inside he heard a voice say, "You're going to have to come in and get me," the report states. The officer could also hear a woman inside screaming. After getting approval, officers kicked in the door.

"Esiquio Hernandez was immediately detained while lounging on a mattress watching television right next to the door that was being banged upon," the report states.

The woman was found "in the fetal position, tucked behind a large hutch," according to the report.

"I could immediately see her lip was split, strangulation marks on her neck, dried blood in and on her ears," Deputy Gary Denham wrote in his report.

The woman told officers Hernandez hit her in the head several times with a hammer, made her eat food he'd urinated on, locked her nude in the closet while he was at work and smeared a Tabasco-saturated rag on her face and eyes, according to police.

According to the report, the woman said that she'd endured the abuse for several months and that Hernandez repeatedly threatened to rape her with a knife. An advocate for victims of domestic violence noted several "poking type" wounds on the woman's body. Hernandez also allegedly would not allow the woman to leave the apartment, choked her into unconsciousness at some point, cut her arms with a razor blade and he would not let her call her family.

Hernandez is being held on $50,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is set for August.

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I hope this piece of waste gets some jail yard justice.

..... I am speechless...

If I ever saw this guy he would be speechless too, kinda hard to talk with a size ten down his throat.

There are some terrible people in this world that is for sure.

Sadly women beaters do not get justice in jail.

The men in there are not that concerned with women beaters for the most part.


They usually want to know what did she do to get beat, since she had to do something in their eyes.

He'll probably be out to do it again soon enough, they don't get long sentences usually either.


Women are not valued as much as they should be by the state yet.

Well being this was his 3rd offence Domestic Battery, he will do it again. Someone this sick doesn't change and needs to be locked away to protect society. Hell, the statement where he either raped her with a knife or wated to tell's me all I need to know about this creep.

NO ONE woman or man should be treated like that.

She is just lucky someone else called the police, she probably would never have gained the courage to disobey this monster and call herself and this guy would have probably eventually killed her.

Looks like a coward to me and looks like he was crying before they took his mugshot.

With his little wannabe gang tattoo on his neck.

Old days the people would have just hung him & saved the trial costs.

the liberals took care of that... everyone has rights now, remember...

Hanging is to quick and not painless enough for this kind of creep. There are many things I can tolerate but a man who raises his hand to a woman is something I can't.

I know and just think he will probably be out in 2-5 years max. Then he will more then likely accomplish his fantasy of raping a woman with a knife.

These guys get worse in prison, not better. They also notmally learn not to leave any witnesses either which makes them even more dangerous.