Machete-wielding man in Piti charged

by Sabrina Salas Matanane

Guam - Officers had to use their pepper spray to calm down 38-year-old Zachary Cruz. He was waiving a machete violently and refusing to put it down when police responded to a disturbance in Piti on June 8. According to court documents earlier that day he was driving a van with a woman and two children inside.

Cruz is accused of driving recklessly and threatening to kill the woman. He was charged with terrorizing, family violence, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and using a deadly weapon in a felony.