A cruise ship worker from South Africa was arrested Tuesday in Alaska’s capital city, accused of attacking a woman and two security guards with scissors on board the vessel, according to authorities.

The U.S. attorney’s office says the man, identified as 35-year-old Ntando Sogoni,  is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon within maritime and territorial jurisdiction. Online court records do not show an attorney for the 35-year-old man.

According to an affidavit from FBI Special Agent Matthew Judy, the man was recently hired by a cruise line and joined the ship, the Norwegian Encore, in Seattle on Sunday. The ship set off that day for a weeklong trip with scheduled stops in Alaska ports, including the capital of Juneau, and British Columbia.

The alleged incident happened west of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, as the ship was sailing to Alaska. According to the affidavit, during the late evening on Sunday, ship personnel saw the man trying to deploy a lifeboat, and he was taken by security to a medical center for an evaluation.

While there, he “became irrational and attempted to leave,” and “physically attacked” a guard and a nurse, the affidavit states. He ran into another room, where he grabbed a pair of scissors and stabbed a woman who was being examined, as well as two guards who tried to intervene before being subdued and held in a “shipboard jail,” the affidavit says. None of the injuries were considered life-threatening.

The ship arrived in Juneau on Tuesday, when he was arrested by the FBI, the U.S. attorney’s office says.

If convicted, Sogoni faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count. A federal district court judge will determine the sentence.

ROCHESTER, Minn. —  A former Mayo Clinic resident accused of fatally poisoning his wife last year may have been identifying as a widower before she even died, a new warrant reveals.

Connor Bowman, 31, is facing charges of second- and first-degree murder for the death of 32-year-old Betty Bowman on Aug. 20, 2023.

According to her obituary, Betty Bowman died at the Mayo Clinic’s St. Marys Hospital “following a sudden onset of autoimmune and infectious illness.” While hospitalized, Betty suffered heart issues, fluid buildup in her lungs and had to have part of her colon removed. She eventually died from organ failure.  

Toxicology reports eventually revealed that the gout drug colchicine was present in Betty’s system the day after she was hospitalized. 

A search warrant filed in Olmsted County on Tuesday reveals multiple women met Connor through the dating app Bumble in the weeks following Betty’s death.

One woman told police that she matched with Connor on Bumble on Sept. 5, 2023, asking him if he thought it was OK to flirt with others. He allegedly responded, “Betty would have wanted him to move on to be happy.”

Connor also reportedly told her that Betty had died from listeria poisoning earlier in the summer. She later confronted him when she learned it had only been two-and-a-half weeks since her death, the warrant says.

Another woman who matched with Connor on Aug. 29, 2023, told investigators that he talked to her about the large life insurance payout he had received and used to pay off his student loan debt.

Investigators in October found a receipt for a $450,000 bank deposit from a life insurance company in Connor’s residence.

The warrant says another woman was “led to believe that Betty had died earlier while on comfort care due to an overdose of morphine, approximately a year prior.”

Data from Connor’s phone revealed he searched “is widow genre neutral” two days before Betty died.He identified himself as a widower in his Bumble profile, according to one witness.

The search warrant requests Bumble disclose information regarding Connor’s account access between Aug. 1 and Oct. 20, 2023, profile status changes and all communication data between July 9 and Oct. 20, 2023.

Connor’s next court date is scheduled for June 11.