Felony charges were filed Wednesday against a Perris man accused of attacking someone with a machete.
Loren Montoya, 40, was booked into the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta on Monday on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
The Riverside County District Attorney’s Office charged him with one felony count of assault with a deadly weapon along with a sentence-enhancing allegation of causing great bodily injury. He was scheduled to appear at the Riverside Hall of Justice at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday to be arraigned.
Deputies received a report of the assault in the 17100 block of Hidalgo Drive in Perris at 12:40 p.m. Monday, according to Sgt. Jeremy Bracey of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.
They found an unidentified victim with a moderate arm injury inflicted by a machete. Deputies were able to control the victim’s bleeding by providing first aid until an ambulance arrived to transport the victim to a hospital for treatment of the non-life-threatening injury, according to Bracey.
Investigators identified Montoya as a potential suspect, but he allegedly fled the scene prior to the arrival of deputies. Montoya was eventually located in the 22000 block of Gavilan Road, where he was arrested without incident.
He is currently being held on $25,000 bail.