Second suspect charged in cop chopping

It was a Christmas Day battle royal in Orange Walk, and when it was over a police officer had lost two fingers to a sharp machete and a father and son tag team of assailants were lying with gunshot wounds to their legs. While the son, nineteen-year-old Julio Alvarado, had been previously charged with a long list of crimes, the dad had not recovered sufficiently to go to court. His rest period is now over, however, and forty-six year old Guatemalan Elvino Misael Alvarado has been charged with attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm, and maim. The elder Alvarado, himself already wounded from a previous altercation, attacked police constable Antonio Chan after Chan tried to restrain his son, who was allegedly drunk at the time.