SEAL BEACH — Police have arrested a 32-year-old employee of Clancy’s, a bar in town where a 46-year-old man was found bleeding with a head injury out back in July and later died.

Matthew Meier, of Seal Beach, was taken into custody at 3 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 2, in regard to the July 18 death of James Tinsman, a Seal Beach resident found unconscious behind the bar on Main Street.

Meier was arrested on suspicion of assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury.

Seal Beach Sgt. Michael Henderson said it was unclear if the suspect was working the night Tinsman was discovered. Henderson would not disclose how Meier was identified as the suspect or provide details that led up to Tinsman’s death but said no weapons were found at the scene.

“After the district attorney reviewed the evidence as presented by Seal Beach police detectives, it was their determination that this was the most appropriate charge,” Henderson said.

Meier is expected in court Thursday, Aug. 3. Jail records show say he is a bartender and was being held in lieu of $250,000.

The death came just two days after a police captain and his girlfriend were found shot to death inside an apartment just a couple of blocks away. The deaths, now considered a murder-suicide by the captain, cast attention to the usually quiet beach town.