{"id":116,"date":"2025-10-13T17:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/116\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T17:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:50:06","slug":"hialeah-man-jailed-after-box-cutter-attack-outside-cafeteria-sends-victim-to-icu-cops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/116\/","title":{"rendered":"Hialeah man jailed after box cutter attack outside cafeteria sends victim to ICU, cops say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0October 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM<\/p>\n<p>Expand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PELS35QXW5AG3LWSI2NNTPWYYU.jpg\"  width=\"1707\" height=\"960\"\/>Abel Perez (MDCR) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HIALEAH, Fla. \u2014 A Hialeah man was arrested on an attempted murder charge on Wednesday after police said he attacked another man with a box cutter over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the Hialeah Police Department, the stabbing happened on Sunday evening at Las Margaritas Cafeteria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An HPD arrest report states that Abel Perez, 52, the victim and another person had been arguing at the cafeteria, located at 1385 Palm Ave., at around 9:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When they stepped out of the restaurant, police said Perez \u201cconfronted\u201d the victim and stabbed him \u201cseveral times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe victim resisted the stabbing attempts and managed to (avoid) a stab wound directed at his neck; however, he was stabbed in the left arm and right leg, causing (severe) arterial bleeding requiring emergency surgery at Ryder Trauma (Center),\u201c an HPD officer wrote on Wednesday. \u201dAs of this writing, the victim remains at (the) Ryder intensive care unit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The report doesn\u2019t state what the argument was about, but said the third person, who has known Perez for four years, identified him as the assailant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities took Perez into custody Wednesday night at his apartment at 84 W. 31st St., the report states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Thursday, he was being held without bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0October 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM ExpandAbel Perez (MDCR) HIALEAH, Fla. \u2014 A Hialeah man was arrested on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}