Illegal immigrant allegedly beheaded Dallas motel manager with machete, kicked head ‘like a soccer ball’
An illegal immigrant with a lengthy criminal history who was released under the Biden administration was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly beheading a motel manager in front of his family and kicking his head “like a soccer ball,” according to authorities and reports.
Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, 37, started an argument with his manager, Chandra Nagamallaiah, at a Downtown Suites motel in Dallas on Wednesday morning while cleaning a room with another employee at the motel, according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by CBS News.
Nagmallaiah, 50, told the pair not to use a washing machine that was broken, but Cobos-Martinez, a Cuban national, grew irate over the manager enlisting the motel worker to translate the instructions instead of speaking to him in Spanish, the document said.
Surveillance footage then allegedly caught Cobos-Martinez leaving the room, pulling out a machete and slashing Nagmallaiah.
The manager bolted to the motel’s office, where his son and wife were, while still under attack, the affidavit detailed.
He allegedly admitted to police during a video interview that he killed his manager, the outlet said.
He had been in the custody of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations at the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, but was released on Jan. 13 under the Biden administration, an ICE spokesperson told The Post.
“This barbaric criminal was released because Cuba would not accept him because of his criminal history,” they said...
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