HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — A man facing two aggravated assault charges was accused of two separate machete attacks in March and April.
On Wednesday in the Superior Court of Guam, Jake Ridlip Ito, 46 or 47, was charged with two counts of aggravated assault as third-degree felonies with special allegations of using a deadly weapon.
Additionally, one of his charges has a special allegation of a vulnerable victim.
According to the magistrate’s complaint, on March 8, officers with the Guam Police Department met with a man at a Dededo residence who was sweating and breathing heavily, and who had an abrasion on his right forearm and minor injuries to his right foot.
The man told officers Ito had chased him with a machete earlier that day.
The complaint states Ito swung the machete at the man, but missed. The man, out of fear of being hit, explained he then dove underneath a plastic picnic table when Ito hit the table with the machete before fleeing the area.
A woman corroborated the man’s statements, also saying Ito pushed her out of the car he fled in.
About a month and a half later, on April 23, officers were dispatched to a store in Dededo where another woman said Ito was wielding a machete and swung it at her. The woman was able to block it with her right hand, causing a laceration to three fingers.
According to the complaint, the woman’s uncle attempted to stop Ito, but Ito struck the uncle on the face with the machete and slapped him before fleeing.
Ito also was charged with theft of a Bluetooth speaker valued at $170 from a Dededo residence on March 25, the complaint stated.
Ito was on pretrial release for felony cases from 2020 and 2021.
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