Waco, Tx (FOX 44) – One man has been arrested after one man was stabbed and a woman cut during a weekend disturbance in Waco.
Santiago Lopez Bustamante, age 30, remained in the McLennan County Jail Monday charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Waco police spokesperson Cierra Shipley said officers were dispatched to the 2000 block of Summer Avenue Saturday on a disturbance call. When they got there they found a victim had been stabbed in the abdomen.
Police were told the two men had been involved in an argument when it got physical and one stabbed the other.
A woman there tried to break things up and in doing so received cuts to her arm.
The male victim was transported to a local hospital. An arrest affidavit stated he was stabbed in the lower left abdomen and his lung was punctured.
The affidavit also stated that in a search of Bustamante incident to his arrest, a small plastic baggie believed to contain a quantity of cocaine fell out of the right front pocket of his jeans.
Bustamante remained in the McLennan County Jail Monday with his bond set at a total of $42,500 with an additional charge of possession of a controlled substance. He was also being held on an immigration detainer.