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This appeared in Today's Albuquerque Journal. I'm posting the text here as the link is in a subscriber only area of the Journal web page.
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Chain Saw Attack Stopped
By Michael Davis
Journal Staff Writer
It wasn't a dark and stormy night and monsters didn't rise from the depths of Harvey Jones Channel.
Corrales police officers prevented a possible horror-movie ending with the arrest of a man they say swung a chain saw at two people in a trailer park Monday afternoon.
Robert Garcia, 43, was blasted in the chest with a beanbag from a shotgun after the alleged assault and refusing to cooperate with police.
He is facing two aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charges and one count of resisting arrest, police said.
"It wasn't quite the 'Corrales Chainsaw Massacre.' Nobody got killed. But apparently Garcia had consumed a lot of beer and was attacking people with a chain saw," Detective Vic Mangiacapra said Tuesday.
Mangiacapra said the only casualty was the door to a trailer on Calle de Blas.
According to the report, Louis Garcia and Josh Salazar walked into the police station and told officers they saw Robert Garcia cutting up a wooden door on a home next to Louis Garcia's.
The two told police that when Robert Garcia saw them, he charged at them with the running chain saw and then lunged and swung at them in an attempt to cut them, the report said.
When police arrived at the scene, the alleged assailant's sister said she had called police because of the attack and that Robert Garcia had cut away at the door of the neighboring trailer home a second time, the report said.
Garcia had locked himself in his room when police arrived.
He obeyed a police officer's request to leave his room and did so without the chain saw. He didn't obey the command to drop to his knees, according to the report.
Instead, he yelled an obscenity and charged the officer, Mangiacapra said.
"He took a beanbag to the chest and went down," he said.
Garcia was treated for minor injuries at the University of New Mexico Hospital and then booked into the Sandoval County Detention Center. He remained there Tuesday night in lieu of posting an $11,000 bond.
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Chain Saw Attack Stopped
By Michael Davis
Journal Staff Writer
It wasn't a dark and stormy night and monsters didn't rise from the depths of Harvey Jones Channel.
Corrales police officers prevented a possible horror-movie ending with the arrest of a man they say swung a chain saw at two people in a trailer park Monday afternoon.
Robert Garcia, 43, was blasted in the chest with a beanbag from a shotgun after the alleged assault and refusing to cooperate with police.
He is facing two aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charges and one count of resisting arrest, police said.
"It wasn't quite the 'Corrales Chainsaw Massacre.' Nobody got killed. But apparently Garcia had consumed a lot of beer and was attacking people with a chain saw," Detective Vic Mangiacapra said Tuesday.
Mangiacapra said the only casualty was the door to a trailer on Calle de Blas.
According to the report, Louis Garcia and Josh Salazar walked into the police station and told officers they saw Robert Garcia cutting up a wooden door on a home next to Louis Garcia's.
The two told police that when Robert Garcia saw them, he charged at them with the running chain saw and then lunged and swung at them in an attempt to cut them, the report said.
When police arrived at the scene, the alleged assailant's sister said she had called police because of the attack and that Robert Garcia had cut away at the door of the neighboring trailer home a second time, the report said.
Garcia had locked himself in his room when police arrived.
He obeyed a police officer's request to leave his room and did so without the chain saw. He didn't obey the command to drop to his knees, according to the report.
Instead, he yelled an obscenity and charged the officer, Mangiacapra said.
"He took a beanbag to the chest and went down," he said.
Garcia was treated for minor injuries at the University of New Mexico Hospital and then booked into the Sandoval County Detention Center. He remained there Tuesday night in lieu of posting an $11,000 bond.
