AUBURN (AP) — A Maine man accused of attacked another man with a machete after a road rage incident has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge.
The Sun Journal reports 52-year-old Carlos Genoves was sentenced to more than two months in jail after pleading guilty to criminal threatening. Prosecutors dismissed two felony counts of aggravated assault and criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon.
Police say the man told officers the attack happened on Aug. 6 after he yelled at Genoves, of South Portland, who had allegedly been driving erratically on a Lewiston road.
Police say Genoves followed him to his home in Sabattus, and the two started to argue. That’s when police say Genoves removed a “machete-type knife” from the trunk of his car and attacked the man. He suffered minor injuries.
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