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On Monday we told you about that crazy chopping on the crowded City Council work bus in which a sanitation worker viciously chopped his co-worker.

Well, today the machete wielder, 53 year-old Dennis Winston Bodden, a resident of Zericote Street, was arraigned before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford. He has been charged with attempted murder, dangerous harm, and use of deadly means of harm. A bus full of eyewitnesses who are all his co-workers, saw when he attacked fellow Sanitation Worker Michael Orlando Tesecum.

Well, when Senior Magistrate Ford tried to read the charges to him, he and one of his family members became very emotional, and the Magistrate had to calm him down before the arraignment could proceed.

She then read the charges to him, and told him that she cannot offer him bail, but he has a right to apply to the Supreme Court for bail. She then remanded him to the Belize Central Prison until March 8, 2018.

As we told you, Bodden and his co-workers were on the bus when he reportedly had some sort of disagreement with Tesecum. That escalated terribly when he pulled a machete and with disregard for the occupants of the bus, he chopped Tesecum twice. The attack scared his fellow co-workers who were in close proximity when the quarrel became violent.