Video Shows Moment Cleaver-Wielding Woman Takes Hostage Inside Police Station

California police have released security footage of the moment a woman armed with a meat cleaver took a woman hostage in a police lobby.

A woman armed with a meat cleaver taking another woman hostage in the lobby of the Salinas Police Department in Salinas, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2019. Salinas Police Department via AP

California police have released security footage of the moment a woman armed with a meat cleaver took a woman hostage in its Northern California police department lobby.

The Salinas Police Department in California shared a surveillance clip on Twitter which shows the moment 22-year-old Mariel Capulong on Sept. 25 took a 43-year-old woman hostage, with one arm around her neck while wielding a cleaver with her right hand at the Lincoln Avenue building.