{"id":155096,"date":"2026-02-14T02:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/155096\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T02:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:34:07","slug":"st-pete-man-arrested-in-pinellas-park-stabbing-victim-hospitalized-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/155096\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete man arrested in Pinellas Park stabbing, victim hospitalized: Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/overnight-stabbing-mugshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Pictured: Joseph Green. Courtesy: Pinellas Park Police Department.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">PINELLAS PARK, Fla. &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St. Petersburg<\/a> man was arrested after a Pinellas Park stabbing that happened late Thursday evening, officers said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The Pinellas Park Police Department said Joseph Green, 51, is now facing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">second-degree attempted murder charge<\/a> after the stabbing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/st-petes-last-john-doe-identified-after-46-years-through-dna-technology\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Pete\u2019s last \u2018John Doe\u2019 homicide victim identified after 46 years through DNA technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Officers said they responded to reports of a stabbing in the area of 7550 40th Street at around 11:30 p.m. on Thursday. They said a verbal altercation between Green and the 31-year-old victim escalated, which led to the stabbing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The victim was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, and police said he has multiple stab wounds. He&#8217;s listed in critical condition as of Friday evening, Pinellas Park police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Green was detained at the scene of the stabbing, which is when investigators said they found a folding knife on him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was released by the Pinellas Park Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/pinellas-park\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pinellas Park<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Pictured: Joseph Green. Courtesy: Pinellas Park Police Department.\u00a0 PINELLAS PARK, Fla. &#8211; A St. Petersburg man was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[630,47,115,1157,4226,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-155096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pinellas","12":"tag-pinellas-park","13":"tag-st-pete","14":"tag-st-pete-headlines","15":"tag-st-pete-news","16":"tag-st-petersburg","17":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","18":"tag-st-petersburg-news","19":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155096","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=155096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}