Man attacked with box cutter

By RILEY YATES
The Intelligencer

A Peddler's Village worker was charged with slashing a colleague with a box cutter after demanding beer and being turned down.

Diogenes Fuentes, 29, faces numerous charges after he allegedly cut the man early Tuesday at the Peddler's Village employee housing off Street Road in Lahaska.

Court records state Fuentes approached fellow employee Ruben Aparicio on the second floor and told him he wanted a beer. When Aparicio said no, Fuentes pulled out the box cutter, slashing him in the chest, neck and hand.

One slash caught Aparicio on the neck before running 12 to 14 inches down his chest, said Solebury Police Chief Dominick Bellizzie.

“It was a hell of a gash,â€