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A man was arrested Friday in connection with a violent, caught-on-video road rage attack that caused over $1,000 in damage to a family’s vehicle in Anaheim earlier in the week, officials said.

Joshua Robert Dalton, a 28-year-old Anaheim resident, was identified as a suspect and taken into custody on suspicion of felony vandalism near his home around 1:30 p.m., Anaheim police said in a news release.

Investigators said tips from the public helped them tie Dalton to the case. The aggressor’s license plate number was also captured in cellphone video of the incident.

Police said the attack began around 2:45 p.m. Tuesday when the driver of the victim vehicle, 34-year-old Veneranda Alvarez, noticed a white Jeep Liberty following her and driving erratically near the intersection of State College Boulevard and Lincoln Avenue.

But according to Alvarez, a friend she was with named Chris had encountered the man a short time before that. She said she had picked up her daughters, ages 12 and 13, at school, then gone with them to meet Chris at Jack in the Box.

But when they got there, Chris had been followed by a man driving a white Jeep Grand Cherokee — now identified as Dalton — from a neighboring Walgreens. Alvarez said Chris asked the man to stop harassing him, and the family left the fast food restaurant out of fear.

But when they got on the road, Dalton was still aggressively following them, according to both the victims and police.

Investigators accuse Dalton of driving in front of Alvarez’s Nissan Cube, forcing her to stop. He then got out of his Jeep, clambered atop her vehicle and shattered her windshield with two forceful punches, police said.

One of Alvarez’s daughters recorded the assault on her cellphone from the backseat.

The ordeal lasted about 20 seconds before he got back in his Jeep and drove away.

Officials estimate Dalton wrought $1,200 in damage.

Alvarez told police she’d never seen the man before and the attack was unprovoked.

Dalton was being held at the Anaheim Detention Facility on $20,000 bail, authorities said.

THANK YOU!! ARREST MADE THANKS TO INFORMATION FROM THE PUBLIC

APD arrested Joshua Robert Dalton after he was identified as the #roadrage suspect.He was arrested today without incident & booked for felony vandalism & is being held on $20,000 bail-More info: https://t.co/l1Hszam3Pa pic.twitter.com/rJTRTWL8pC — Anaheim PD (@AnaheimPD) January 26, 2019

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