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New Mexico man in Utah less than 6 hours is arrested in aggravated assault case
A New Mexico man who arrived in Utah lower than six hours earlier for work was arrested Wednesday and accused of attacking and severely injuring a person’s face in Roosevelt. (Rafa Jodar, Shutterstock)
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ROOSEVELT — A person who police say was in Utah lower than six hours has been arrested in jap Utah and accused of attacking a person with a bolt from the drilling rig.
Ruben Yazzie, 43, was booked into the Duchesne County Jail on Wednesday for investigation of aggravated assault leading to critical harm and intoxication.
Roosevelt police had been referred to as Wednesday to an condo the place they discovered a person “sitting on the sofa with blood protecting his face and with gash marks in his head and face,” in keeping with a police reserving affidavit.
He informed officers that he was sleeping on the sofa when “he was hit within the head with a bolt from the drilling rig,” the affidavit states, and woke as much as see Yazzie strolling away. The bolt was positioned by officers within the storage with blood on it.
The accidents suffered by the sufferer “required him to be shipped to Salt Lake to a hospital with plastic surgeon to reconstruct his face,” the affidavit says.
Police additionally famous that “Ruben simply got here to the realm to work on a rig and had been right here lower than six hours when this incident came about. Ruben is from New Mexico.”