{"id":168630,"date":"2026-03-19T22:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/168630\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T22:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:00:30","slug":"queens-man-arrested-after-bus-stop-stabbing-tried-to-flee-to-peru-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/168630\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens man arrested after bus stop stabbing, tried to flee to Peru, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"gxh6e\">An 18-year-old Queens man was arrested after he allegedly stabbed a woman at an East Elmhurst bus stop and then tried to flee the country days later, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"3kfah\">Luis Emmanuel Valencia Ponce was taken into custody early Thursday morning and charged with attempted murder and two counts of assault, according to a police spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"fhbot\">The attack happened around 6 a.m. Monday near 23rd Avenue and 94th Street. A 29-year-old woman was waiting for a bus when a man approached her from behind, pulled out a knife and stabbed her multiple times in the arm, police said. The man then fled on foot.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"72igi\">The woman was taken to Elmhurst Hospital, where she remains in stable condition, officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"e5499\">Police released a surveillance image of the suspect and asked the public for help identifying him. Valencia Ponce\u2019s father recognized his son and contacted police, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"5qnuo\">Around the same time, Valencia Ponce went to JFK Airport and tried to board a flight to Peru without a boarding pass, according to police. Port Authority officers arrested him after he became disruptive and took him to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"5140a\">Authorities later connected him to the stabbing and transferred him to NYPD custody, where he was formally charged early Thursday, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"ccsnr\">Police said the attack appears to have been random and that the suspect and victim did not know each other.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"59i2f\">It was not immediately clear whether Valencia Ponce has an attorney. He was expected to be arraigned on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old Queens man was arrested after he allegedly stabbed a woman at an East Elmhurst bus stop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-168630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}