YONKERS, NY – Police in Yonkers have arrested Samuel Areizaga for a stabbing incident that took place Saturday afternoon on Riverdale Avenue. Police arrived to find a 63-year-old man with a stab wound to his arm.
Police identified Areizaga, who is homeless, as the attacker and arrested him.
Areizaga, according to police, has over 60 convictions and has been arrested 65 times. He had six open arrest warrants and 19 failure-to-appear charges against him.
“Both victim and suspect are apparently known to each other, and the incident appears to have been a personal dispute in nature that escalated to physical violence when the suspect allegedly attacked the victim with a knife,” the Yonkers Police Department said. “The victim was treated at a local area hospital; police recovered the knife at the scene.”