Officers saw the woman also had been bitten in the face, court records say.

Both victims were taken to Sanford Medical Center where Hagar told police he had picked up the couple in downtown Fargo and, as they approached their destination, Martinez passed out and the woman vomited in the cab.

Hagar explained to the couple that Doyle’s would charge them to clean up the vomit, and as he was waiting for his company to tell him what the bill would be, the woman attempted to wake up her husband.

That was when he became violent, punching her in the back of the head and dragging her out of the cab by her hair, the driver told police.

Hagar said he was on the phone with 911 dispatchers when Martinez turned on him, punching the back of the head. Then, as his head sagged forward, disoriented, Martinez put his mouth around his entire nose, biting off the end of it, the cab driver told police.

Police also interviewed Martinez’s wife, who told officers that her husband had a history of assaulting and biting her and had been in trouble as a Marine for biting another Marine.