1/14/2020 GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO News)– On Monday evening Pedro Mendoza was on his regular mail route when he noticed a frightening scene: a man threating a woman and her baby outside of her home off of W. Ute Avenue.

“He was saying, ‘I’m going to kill you and your baby and I’m going to slice his throat,’” says Mendoza.

The man reportedly came towards the woman with a knife. A neighbor right next door, Carlos Garcia, intervened in the situation. The man then turned on Garcia and began approaching him with the knife. That’s when Mendoza jumped into action.

“He looked at me and he said ‘you want some of this?’. Then he reached into his back pocket and pulled the knife on me and started swinging his knife,” says Mendoza.

Mendoza then tackled the suspect to the ground while Garcia managed to get the knife away from the man. Mendoza held him restrained until police arrived.

“The guy was telling me to let go and I told him ‘I’m not going to let you go and hurt anyone on my route,’” says Mendoza.

The affidavit reports that 29-year old Christopher Cisneros resisted arrest, resulting in a physical struggle with the officer who arrived.

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