SEYMOUR, Ind. – The Seymour Police Department (SPD) was called to the Wal-Mart Distribution Center, at 2100 E. Tipton St., on Saturday. Officers say they were advised by a plant supervisor that a female employee had accused another employee of grabbing her necklace, ripping it off, holding a knife to her neck, and threatening to kill her.
Police interviewed both parties and learned the two had been in a previous relationship. The victim told authorities the suspect was always harassing her at work and repeated the claims about the knife and death threats.
The suspect, Jose Arnaldo Membreno Montes, 33, of North Vernon, originally denied almost everything. During a follow-up interview with SPD, he allegedly admitted to confronting the victim and holding a knife to her neck because he was jealous.
Membreno Montes was arrested, transported to Jackson County Jail, and booked for domestic battery with a deadly weapon and intimidation with a deadly weapon. It was later discovered he was working under a false name, so identity deception and forgery charges were added to his list of offenses.