DALLAS — A Cuban immigrant with a violent criminal history has been indicted on federal charges in connection with the gruesome beheading of a man at a Dallas motel .

Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, 37, was formally charged in October with capital murder in the death of 50-year-old Chandramouli Nagamallaiah, according to a Dallas County indictment.

The document alleges Cobos-Martinez intentionally caused Nagamallaiah’s death “by stabbing and by cutting and by chopping” him with multiple weapons, including "a knife, an axe, a machete and another sharp object." The indictment also states the killing occurred while Cobos-Martinez was committing or attempting to commit a robbery of Nagamallaiah.

On Sept. 10, Dallas police officers were called to a stabbing at a motel on Samuell Boulevard aroun

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