A California man has been arrested for allegedly removing human remains, a human leg, from the scene of an Amtrak crash. He was caught eating it.
According to eyewitnesses and video footage provided to multiple news agencies, the man was apparently eating the human leg he had removed from the scene of the train accident.
According to Kern County records, Resendo Tellez was arrested on Friday on one misdemeanor charge of “removal of human remains from other than a cemetery,” a misdemeanor charge of possessing controlled substance paraphernalia, and a felony charge of breaking probation.
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Tellez, 27, reportedly stole a human body part from the scene of a train incident in Wasco, California, which killed one unidentified individual.
An eyewitness near the incident told KBAK that Tellez was waving a human leg around and apparently biting it.
“I’m not sure from where, but he walked this way and he was waving a person’s leg. And he started chewing on it over there, he was biting it and he was hitting it against the wall and everything,” the witness, Jose Ibarra, told KBAK.
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Around 8 a.m., deputies and BNSF Railroad officers responded to the call of a pedestrian being struck by a train at the Amtrak Station in Wasco, California.
Deputies discovered that Tellez had removed evidence, a leg, from the scene. Tellez was detained without incident on multiple outstanding warrants and for removing evidence from the scene.
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