Man placed on ICE hold after he was found bloodied on top of semi truck following nearby break in

A man has been arrested after police found him bloodied and intoxicated on top of a semi truck parked at a gas station in Tennessee on Tuesday morning. 

The incident happened on Tuesday, May 5th at a Murfreesboro Pike gas station in Tennessee. 

According to WKRN, police were called to the scene on reports of a “disorderly individual, covered in blood, climbing on top of a semi.” Officers arrived to discover 45-year-old Jose Manuel Gomez on top of a semi truck with a severe laceration on his hand. 

It was soon discovered that the Herc Rentals business across the street had experienced a break in and serious property damage consistent with the injury to Gomez’s hand. Gomez was also caught on surveillance video causing damage to the property. 

“I’ve only seen the video of him coming up here and busting out the front door, and like I said, he’s just stumbling in, looked like he didn’t know where he was at or what he was wanting to do. He was just trying to create chaos,” said Herc Rentals manager Josh Eatherly. 

He actually grabbed a piece of metal out there; threw it through; came through the door; proceeded to go in here; look around; ended up going into our manager’s office, where he proceeded to, I guess, pull out drawers, trying to see whatever he could grab,” Eatherly continued. 

“The window in our manager’s office was also busted out, so instead of going out the way he came in, through the busted door, he decided to break another window…  I believe somehow he thought he was barricaded in our manager’s office, even though the door was not locked, so he broke the handle off the door, barricaded himself in there, and I guess assumed the only way out was to bust the window…”

“You can track the blood from our manager’s office all the way to the gas station where he went.”

Police took the bloodied man into custody and transported him to a hospital after finding him on top of the semi truck. At the hospital, Gomez admitted to taking a narcotic prior to the incident. He is currently being held on $10,000 bond for felony burglary, and has been placed under an ICE hold.