Police: Naked man threatened shoppers with machete
Police say a naked man is accused of threatening Lake Grove shoppers with a machete. According to police, Jose Amaya, of Bay Shore, barricaded himself in a tractor trailer he drove for a New Jersey
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May 19, 2015, 3:37 PM
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Updated 3,509 days ago
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Police say a naked man is accused of threatening Lake Grove shoppers with a machete.
According to police, Jose Amaya, of Bay Shore, barricaded himself in a tractor trailer he drove for a New Jersey company.
Officers arrived on the scene after people reported the man waving a 20-inch machete in the parking lot of the Lake Grove Costco at 1 p.m. yesterday.
Police say when Amaya tried to leave the truck through a window, they were able to apprehend him.
Amaya was taken for evaluation after being charged with menacing a police officer and drug possession.
Amaya will be arraigned today.
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