A Portland man who claimed he was upset with an acquaintance over her use of Pine-Sol is accused of slicing her hand with a machete so severely that police on the scene claimed the appendage was “dangling” from the end of her arm, court documents say.
A male 911 caller told police last Wednesday that 51-year-old Clemente Banuelos-Delgado and the 32-year-old woman had been drinking vodka in the caller’s backyard when the woman screamed, according to a probable cause affidavit.
The woman had occasionally been living in the caller’s garage. Banuelos-Delgado, listed in jail records as 5-foot-1 and 155 pounds, told the caller that he struck the woman with a machete because he disapproved of her using Pine-Sol to clean the garage, the affidavit said.
The woman told police that she was sitting in a chair in the home’s driveway when she saw Banuelos-Delgado go to his car, return with the machete and swing it at her as he yelled that he was going to kill her, according to the affidavit. She was injured when she raised her arm to block the blow.
