A film crew member was arrested and charged for stabbing a co-worker on set in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
A crew member on set of a production filming in Santa Fe has been charged with attacking another crew member with a carving knife.
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According to the report, Jaime Moreno-Ruelas of Albuquerque, 25, was arrested and charged last week on one count of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
Santa Fe County sheriff’s deputies say the crime occurred on Wednesday at the Bonanza Creek Ranch south of Santa Fe, New Mexico. According to the Albuquerque Journal, here’s what allegedly happened:
The co-worker told Santa Fe County deputies he’d had a disagreement about “table placement” with Moreno-Ruelas earlier in the day.
At lunchtime, he said, the meat cutter approached him in a room away from other colleagues. He presumed Moreno-Ruelas would apologize.
The victim says Morena-Ruelas approached him and then attacked him with the knife.
According to the victim, the suspect slashed him in the right forearm and the left side of the torso.
Emergency responders treated him at the scene.
Morena-Ruelas is also wanted in California on an unrelated assault charge.
Details surrounding the name of the movie have not been released. But, according to NewsOk.com, the movie filming in Santa Fe’s Bonanaza Creek Productions Ranch is Justice which features Stephen Lang and Jamie-Lynn Sigler.
Justice is set in 1868 and centers on a U.S. marshal seeking justice for his brother’s murder while defending a small town from a corrupt mayor.
This is the second time this month that a film crew worker was arrested for engaging in illegal activity on set of a production. According to reports, a woman cast as a background extra in the HBO TV series The Leftovers is facing jail time after police say she admitted to stealing a woman’s purse during filming. Police say Rae Michelle Washing, 31, stole another background actor’s Louis Vuitton bag during filming on set of the hit TV series The Leftovers.
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