LEWISTON – A South Portland man Wednesday denied charges that he attacked a man with a hatchet during a road rage incident last month in Sabattus.

Carlos Genoves, 52, pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated assault and criminal threatening and was allowed to remain free on $5,000 bail.

At the arraignment in 8th District Court, Genoves was ordered to refrain from possessing dangerous weapons and to submit to random searches.

Genoves was arrested at his home Aug. 9 and charged with the attack that occurred three days earlier.

Police said that on Saturday, Aug. 6, Genoves cut another man’s hand and held a machete to his throat after following him to his home on Main Street in Sabattus. The two men had encountered each other while driving on Sabattus Street in Lewiston, police said.

The victim told investigators that Genoves had been driving erratically, prompting the victim to yell and display his middle finger. Following that altercation, Genoves followed the other man home, according to the affidavit. After the men argued, Genoves went to the trunk of his vehicle and retrieved the machete used to attack the other man.

The man, 28, suffered cuts to his hand and neck but did not require medical attention.

Police said the assault was witnessed by a third man who called for help. That witness was able to provide police with the license plate number of the suspect’s car, according to the affidavit.

Police later tracked the car, a Honda Accord, to a home on Westbrook Street in South Portland. Sabattus police arrested Genoves at the home. However, a search of the home and car did not turn up the machete, according to the affidavit.