LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. (WFLA) — A South Florida man was arrested over the weekend for attacking his neighbor with a knife, the Lee County Sheriff’s Workplace stated.
Deputies responded to the house, situated on twenty first Road SW in Lehigh Acres on Saturday evening concerning a disturbance between duplex neighbors.
Addiel Herrera, 56, is accused of barging into the house following a verbal argument. The sufferer reportedly closed their storage and locked their doorways to get away from Herrera.
In accordance with the sheriff’s workplace, Herrera went into his own residence, grabbed a knife, and commenced banging on his neighbor’s door.
When the neighbor opened the door, Herrera “slashed on the sufferer,” injuring her hand. Deputies stated the sufferer was capable of push Herrera out of their door, the place he stabbed the knife into the lady’s door a number of occasions.
Officers arrived to seek out the suspect sitting on a sofa in his storage and coated in blood. He repeatedly advised Herrera to return towards him together with his fingers raised.
The video launched by the sheriff’s workplace reveals the deputy strategy the suspect and in the end arrest him for armed housebreaking with assault. Herrera is being held with out bond on the Lee County Jail.
“It is no shock this man has a prolonged prison historical past that features aggravated assault and battery,” Sheriff Carmine Marceno stated. “Violence of any variety will NOT be tolerated in Lee County. Not solely is he a nasty neighbor, however he is a nasty resident of Lee County.”
