Carlo M. Cerutti, 50, was arrested Saturday at his duplex near the NorthTown Mall after his neighbor called police, according to court documents. 
 
 A Spokane man faces assault charges after allegedly attacking his neighbor with a sword following a dispute over garbage cans. 
 
 A Spokane man faces assault charges after allegedly attacking his neighbor with a sword following a dispute over garbage cans. 
 
 Carlo M. Cerutti, 50, was arrested Saturday at his duplex near the NorthTown Mall after his neighbor called police, according to court documents. 
 
 According to court documents, Cerutti’s wife got into an argument with her neighbor after accusing him of throwing his garbage into her garbage can. 
 
 The victim told police Cerutti came rushing out of his house after the argument wielding “a large sword-type weapon with multiple blades,” court documents say. He tried to swing the weapon like a hatchet, the neighbor told police. 
 
 The victim put his hands up to block the blade and was able to pull the sword away from Cerutti, court documents say. Another neighbor witnessed the fight. ||||| Mary Cerruti was reported missing in 2015 after neighbors contacted police because they hadn't seen her for a while and her mail was piling up. 
 
 HOUSTON — There are still no answers in a bizarre Heights mystery that has the whole neighborhood talking. 
 
 Renters were moving into the bungalow at 610 Allston Saturday when they found human remains in an attic wall. They also found a pair of red eyeglasses similar to those worn by the previous owner, 61-year-old Mary Cerruti, the Houston Chronicle reported. 
 
 "That's terrifying and so sad. It's scary that we were right there. And we didn't know," said April Lidell, a neighbor. "It’s either an accident, an unfortunate accident, or somebody put her there." 
 
 The homeowners found the skeletal remains inside a wall in their new home on Saturday. (Photo: KHOU 11 News) 
 
 Cerruti was reported missing two years ago after neighbors contacted police because they hadn't seen her for a while and her mail was piling up. 
 
 "I passed by there every day and I saw everything piling up," said Abbie Rangel. "For the longest time, I just thought she went out of town." 
 
 Lidell lived across the street in 2015 when firefighters went inside Cerruti’s house and found a bunch of dead cats. 
 
 “When the fire trucks were there, they said the smell was so bad in the house,” Lidell remembered. “They figured it was from the cats, because God knows how long they had been in there without food or water.” 
 
 There was no sign of the woman described by neighbors as shy, quiet and frail. 
 
 “I don’t know what more we could have done, but I wish we had,” Lidell said. “Wish we had talked to her more. I wish we would have said, ‘Hey here’s our numbers if you need anything, give us a call.’” 
 
 Neighbors say Cerruti's car remained in the driveway for a about a year after she disappeared but one day, it was gone. 
 
 Neighbors say Cerruti joined them in the fight against a luxury apartment complex planned for the land around her house. She spoke at a 2013 planning commission meeting. 
 
 "Literally this project is going to be in my backyard," Cerruti said. "I'm surrounded. And I just don't see the sense of this project. It seems like just too many apartments for such a small space." 
 
 But the project was approved and Cerruti, a divorcee who lived alone, had to contend with construction that made getting to her house more difficult. Neighbors say she rarely came out after that. 
 
 A bank foreclosed on her home in 2015 after the mortgage payments stopped. Liens on the property were settled, the house was cleaned out and it was eventually placed on the market and sold. 
 
 Police Detective Jason Fay said the new residents are now a bit worried because of the body. 
 
 "Was it someone who was killed and stuffed in the wall, or did they accidentally pass away by ending up in the wall?" Fay said. 
 
 The renters say they're not sure if they're going to stay in the house. 
 
 A medical examiner is still working to identify the remains and determine if there was any foul play. 
 
 Timeline: 
 
 2001: Mary Cerruti bought the bungalow at 610 Allston 
 
 2013: Cerruti joined neighbors in speaking out against a large apartment complex; they lost the battle and the complex went up behind Cerruti’s bungalow 
 
 August, 2014: Cerutti stopped paying her mortgage 
 
 February 2015: A missing person report was filed after neighbors alerted police 
 
 July 2016: Foreclosure proceedings started 
 
 March 2017: Human remains were found in the attic of Cerutti’s house 
 
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 Skeletal remains were carried out of a home in the heights area Saturday night, according to the Houston Fire Department.A skeleton was found in the attic of a home in the Houston Heights, discovered by the new owner, still moving into the 1930's cottage on Allston Street."They were moving boxes into the attic," said the father of one of the new renters. "They noticed a gap in the plywood and looked inside with a flashlight."He asked that his name not be used.The skeleton was in a crawl space, between the boards on the attic floor and the sheet rock on the ceiling.All that was found was "just bones," said HPD homicide detective Jason Fay. "There was some tattered cloth but not sure it was just scraps drug in by wild animals."Detectives will attempt to contact previous tenants of the home, but confirm there was a missing persons report filed for 61-year-old Mary Cerruti, a woman who lived at the same address two years ago.Cerruti's ex-husband, David Cerutti, said they divorced 25 years ago, he was notified when she was reported missing, but hasn't received any news since then.Cerruti was an only child with a few close family members.According to a neighbor, Cerruti kept to herself and surrounded herself with several cats. The neighbor said police went inside Cerruti's house and found all of her cats dead, but never found her. The house has sat empty until the new tenants moved in and found these remains.A forensics exam will attempt to put a name to the remains, and determine how the person died. It is possible it was an accident, or through natural means, such as a health condition. "It could have been someone up in their attic and gone about their business, and unfortunately, the board they were standing on gave out. Nobody knew that they were there, and they had nobody to check on them. "The skeletal remains, most of which were located, were carried out in several bags, and loaded into a Forensics Center van.As for the owner, his dad said his son intends to continue moving in. "We'll say a rosary for the person's soul, and everything will be fine," he added.
– Newser Note: For maximum impact, please listen to this song while reading the following story. KREM reports an argument about garbage escalated—as they are wont to do—until one neighbor was threatening another with a weapon straight out of Star Trek. Carlo Cerutti, 50, has been charged with assault after allegedly swinging a Klingon bat'leth—or "a large sword-like weapon with multiple blades" for our non-Trekkie readers—at the victim, according to the Spokesman-Review. Apparently Cerutti's wife had gotten tired of the victim putting his garbage in their garbage can and told him to knock it off, KREM reports. That's when she says the victim hit her with a bag of trash. Cerutti allegedly ran out of the house to defend his wife while swinging his bat'leth around. The victim was able to disarm Cerutti but fell off his porch in the process. Cerutti's wife claims he only unsheathed the bat'leth when the victim entered their house. There is one witness who can illuminate exactly what happened, unfortunately…