{"id":278385,"date":"2026-06-25T22:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278385\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T22:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:30:31","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-dispute-over-declined-card-ends-with-two-nail-salon-employees-slashed-in-crown-heights-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278385\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Dispute Over Declined Card Ends With Two Nail Salon Employees Slashed In Crown Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A dispute over a declined payment card ended with two nail salon employees slashed Wednesday night in Crown Heights, according to police and police sources.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the violence happened just before 8:40 p.m. at Sunny Nail &amp; Salon, located at 758A Nostrand Ave.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to police, a 50-year-old employee suffered a slash wound to her shoulder. A 53-year-old employee suffered slash wounds to her face, arm and chest. Both women were taken to Kings County Hospital, where police say they are expected to recover.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">When News 12 arrived Thursday morning, blood could still be seen on the sidewalk outside the salon.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police sources told News 12 the confrontation began after a customer&#8217;s payment card was declined. The dispute then turned violent, police sources said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities have not said what type of weapon was used.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police arrested 23-year-old Laila Melendez, of Manhattan, in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Melendez is charged with three counts of assault and four counts of criminal possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dispute over a declined payment card ended with two nail salon employees slashed Wednesday night in Crown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-278385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278385","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=278385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}