Suffolk County police arrested a Bay Shore man for allegedly stabbing a police officer in Amity Harbor.
First Precinct officers responded to Gibbs Road on May 6 at 12:26 a.m. after a 911 caller reported two men attempting to steal items from vehicles. When officers arrived, they arrested Marcello Martinez at the corner of East Gibbs Road and Western Concourse while a second man fled.
A short time later, officers located Steven Vazquez hiding under a vehicle in front of 11 Gibbs Road. While attempting to flee from under the vehicle, Vazquez allegedly stabbed an officer in the upper right thigh and slashed him in the face.
A tourniquet was applied to the officer’s leg, and he was transported to a local hospital, where he was treated and released.
Vazquez, 22, of 1420 Ackerson Blvd., was charged with second-degree assault, fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, resisting arrest, menacing a police officer, and fourth-degree grand larceny. Martinez, 19, of 72 Greenwood Dr., North Babylon, was charged with possession of burglar’s tools and fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property.
The two will be arraigned on May 7 at First District Court in Central Islip.