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A fight at the Triple T Too in the Town of Hazel Green early Sunday morning resulted in injuries and arrests.

Demetrio Mendeza, 34, Sycamore, Ill., was taken by Hazel Green EMS to Southwest Health Center for head lacerations.

According to the Grant County Sheriff’s Department, Mendeza walked out of the bar’s restroom unknowingly into the middle of the fight, where he was struck in the head with a beer bottle.

The participants in and reason for the fight are unknown, according to the Sheriff’s Department.

A man who accompanied Mendeza to the hospital, Migeul Angel Aguilar-Mendez, 28, Sycamore, Ill., was later arrested for a valid Lafayette County warrant.

Aguilar-Mendez was wanted for not paying a 2009 traffic ticket for operating without a valid license, according to court records.

Anyone with information about the fight is asked to call the sheriff’s department, 723-2157, or Grant County Crime Stoppers, 1-800-789-6600.