Wednesday, March 27, 2024

I'll Take a Drumstick to Go, Please

A California man has been arrested after being suspected of taking the leg of a pedestrian who was struck by an Amtrak train in California and eating it.  Officials said the man who allegedly removed evidence from the Amtrak station on Friday was identified as 27-year-old Resendo Tellez.

At around 8 a.m., deputies responded with the BNSF Railroad Police Department to a report of a pedestrian who was struck by a train at the station in the 700 block of G Street in Wasco.  Deputies said they learned that Tellez had removed evidence-- specifically, a leg-- from the scene.

A crew laying concrete outside of the station reported seeing the horrifying sight.  "I'm not sure from where, but he walked this way and he was waving a person's leg. And he started chewing on it over there, he was biting it and he was hitting it against the wall and everything," said Jose Ibarra, a worker who saw the incident.

Tellez was found and arrested without incident on multiple outstanding warrants, and for taking evidence from the scene.  "On the leg, the skin was hanging. You could see the bone," said Ibarra.  Ibarra added he thought the man was homeless when he walked past him while chewing on the leg. He's unsure where the man came from, but he said police showed up and stopped the man after people from the station called dispatch.

 

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