Machete-wielding Man Pleads Innocent In SMC Court: D.A.

REDWOOD CITY, CA -- A 40-year-old man pleaded not guilty in San Mateo County Superior
Court Wednesday to several charges related to an alleged machete attack on his former girlfriend and her new boyfriend, according to prosecutors.

Marco Antonio Ayapanjocop, 40, is alleged to have attacked the pair in the lobby of their apartment building in the 300 block of Fourth Avenue in an unincorporated area near Redwood City on Monday evening.

Ayapanjocop, who has a 7-year-old son with his former girlfriend, texted her saying he wanted to visit the boy, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office. The woman and her boyfriend brought the child down to the lobby in an elevator and were immediately confronted by Ayapanjocop, who was allegedly holding a machete and screaming that he was going to kill the new boyfriend, prosecutors said.

Ayapanjocop allegedly came at the boyfriend with the machete but the adult victims were able get the weapon away from him, although not before the boyfriend suffered a minor cut to his arm, prosecutors said.

Ayapanjocop then took the child to Martin Luther King Jr. Park in San Mateo, where he was tracked down and arrested by sheriff's deputies. On Wednesday, Ayapanjocop, a South San Francisco resident, pleaded not guilty to four felony charges -- assault with a deadly weapon, two
additional assault charges and making threats. He also pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor charge of child endangerment, according to the district attorney's office.

--Bay City News