A Cuban boxer is facing an attempted murder charge in a bizarre stabbing incident in Miami over the weekend, records showed.
Frank Zaldivar-Santiesteban, 29, was arrested Sunday on a charge of attempted felony murder with a firearm or deadly weapon, an arrest report said.
The incident began early Sunday when an officer responded to Northwest 57th Avenue for a report of a suspicious person who looked like he was sharpening a knife, before the caller said the suspicious person went into an apartment and that people were arguing and naked, the report said.
The officer spoke with two people in the apartment who said everything was fine, but about an hour later, the caller called 911 again saying people were fighting and a person was cut, the report said.
A short time later, a call was received from an employee of a gas station at 5688 West Flagler Street who said there was a naked man covered in blood holding a knife.
Officers responded and found a victim with stab wounds to the chest who was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center with a laceration to his chest and a punctured lung.
Surveillance video showed Miami Police arriving at the gas station and encountering the naked victim outside.
Police found a man naked and stabbed at a Miami gas station on April 5, 2026.
The victim said he’d met Zaldivar-Santiesteban a few days earlier and said Zaldivar-Santiesteban came to his apartment with a knife and told him “God told me to come here and stab you,” the report said.
The victim said he was stabbed and tussled with Zaldivar-Santiesteban before he was able to take knife away and stab Zaldivar-Santiesteban multiple times, the report said.
Zaldivar-Santiesteban was found a few hours later in the area of Northwest 42nd Avenue and Northwest 7th Street covered in blood with a white blanket around his waist and refused to identify himself to officers, the report said.
He was also hospitalized at Ryder Trauma Center where a fingerprint reader was used to identify him.
A detective spoke with Zaldivar-Santiesteban who said he’d been in an argument with “his brother, whom he loves, and he does not care what happens to him; only God can judge him,” the report said.
Zaldivar-Santiesteban appeared before a judge on Tuesday in a video call from a hospital bed. The judge ordered him held without bond.