Albuquerque man arrested accused of threatening maintenance worker with hatchet

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE)- It was a scary situation for a maintenance worker that was threatened with his own hatchet.
According to a criminal complaint, the maintenance man was pulling weeds at an apartment complex near Central and Wyoming when police say a resident of that complex, 54-year-old Richard Contreras, grabbed a hatchet from the man’s truck and started chasing him around the property.
Fortunately no one was hurt.
Police say Contreras suffers from mental illness and has not been