Police have arrested a man who is accused of assaulting a woman with a hatchet at a hotel in Manchester on Friday.

Officers responded to the Travelodge by Wyndham on Hartford Turnpike around 1 p.m. for a report of an assault involving a hatchet.

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Once at the hotel, police said they learned a 38-year-old man from Middletown had assaulted a woman in the parking lot of the hotel and then fled on foot.

The woman was transported to the hospital to be treated for non-life threatening injuries.

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Manchester officers, a police K9 and officers from Vernon Police Department searched the area for the man. He was foun

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