Man arrested in alleged attack with a beer bottle

SIKESTON, Mo. -- A Sikeston man faces felony charges after allegedly cutting two roommates with a broken beer bottle.

Marcalino Martinez, 22, was charged by the Scott County Prosecuting Attorney's Office with first-degree assault, a felony second-degree assault charge and two felony counts of armed criminal action.

The charges came from an alleged altercation Monday in Sikeston. According to a Sikeston Department of Public Safety incident report, officers responded about 8:45 p.m. to a call of several men cut during an altercation at a home on the 200 block of Moore Street.

Officers found a Hispanic male who did not speak English bleeding from a 4-inch cut on left side of the neck, according to police Capt. Bill Mygatt.

About this time, officers found two more Hispanic men with blood on them in the area and took them to the residence.

"One of them had some lacerations on his hand; the other didn't have any injuries but did have some blood on his person," Mygatt said.

Officers talked to a fourth Hispanic man at the home. "He could speak some broken English," Mygatt said. "He had a small laceration on his forehead."

The Hispanic man with the cut on his forehead said he and the victim with the cut face, both who lived at the residence, were in a bedroom there when they were attacked by their roommate, Martinez.

The victim who sustained a cut to the face reportedly confirmed while being transported to an area hospital for treatment that Martinez was the man who cut him. "He was waiting to enter surgery at the time of the report," Mygatt said.

Martinez was treated for minor lacerations on his right hand by emergency medical personnel and taken into custody by Sikeston officers.

Mygatt said the Department of Public Safety has contacted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to check on Martinez's immigration status. Martinez remained in custody at Department of Public Safety headquarters awaiting transportation to an area jail. Information about Martinez's bond amount was not available.