Man, 18, charged in Lakewood stabbing
By Margaret F. Bonafide • TOMS RIVER BUREAU • May 6, 2008

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LAKEWOOD — An 18-year-old township man was in custody Monday after the man he allegedly stabbed walked into Kimball Medical Center's emergency room with wounds.

Detective Steve Wexler said police have charged Daniel Flores with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a kitchen knife, and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.

He is also being detained as a possible illegal immigrant for the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, police said.


Officer Leonard Nieves Jr. was at the hospital on an unrelated matter when Israel Torres, 19, of Woodlake Manor Drive came in to be treated for two stab wounds to his torso, Wexler said. Torres had suffered a punctured lung, a lacerated internal organ and other internal injuries when he was stabbed about 1 a.m. Sunday.

Nieves contacted Officer Christopher Matlosz, who patrols the Arlington Avenue area where the victim said the stabbing took place, Wexler said.

Matlosz and Officer Jose Marrero interviewed Torres, who gave the following account:

Torres and a friend drove to a house on Arlington Avenue and encountered a man later identified as Daniel Flores, 18, of Arlington Avenue.

Torres asked Flores about a friend who lived there, but was not there at the time. Flores gave Torres the man's telephone number, but refused to let Torres use his telephone.

When Torres turned to leave, Flores attacked him, stabbing him twice in the back, Wexler said.

Torres' friend attempted to help him fend off the attack, but was held back by another man who was not identified, police said.

Flores told police that at first he thought he had been punched in the back, but later learned he was bleeding, Wexler said.

Detective James Finnegan responded to the house and recovered a bloody kitchen knife. Detective Robert Hart of the Ocean County Sheriff's Criminalistics Investigative Unit responded and processed the evidence from the scene, Wexler said.

Flores was being held Monday in the Ocean County Jail, Toms River, in lieu of 150,000 bail.



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