A worker from South Africa on a cruise ship got arrested in Alaska’s central city on Tuesday, 7th May. Authorities say he attacked a woman and two security guards with scissors on the ship.
The U.S. attorney’s office charged him with assaulting them with a dangerous weapon in a maritime area. Court records online don’t show if he has a lawyer yet.
According to an affidavit from FBI Special Agent Matthew Judy, the man was recently hired by a cruise line and joined the Norwegian Encore ship in Seattle on Sunday.
The ship set off that day for a weeklong trip with scheduled stops in Alaska ports, including the capital of Juneau and British Columbia.
The alleged incident happened west of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, as the ship sailed to Alaska. According to the affidavit, during the “late evening” Sunday, ship personnel saw the man trying to deploy a lifeboat, and security took him to a medical centre for an evaluation.
While there, he “became irrational and attempted to leave,” and “physically attacked” a guard and a nurse, the affidavit states.
He ran into another room, where he grabbed a pair of scissors and stabbed a woman who was being examined, as well as two guards who tried to intervene before being subdued and held in a “shipboard jail,” the affidavit says. None of the injuries were considered life-threatening.
The ship arrived in Juneau on Tuesday, 7th May, when the FBI arrested him, the U.S. attorney’s office says.
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