11.2.08

NY man held in bus slashing



A Brooklyn man is charged with slashing the face of a homeless man aboard a bus on the Garden State Parkway over the weekend.The man was taken to the hospital by NJ EMT's

New Jersey State Police say Juan Mateo used a box cutter to slash the face of Heraldo Jacobo aboard a bus heading northbound near mile marker 68 in Barnegat.

Mateo is charged with aggravated assault, terroristic threats, possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.

He is being held on $150,000 bail at the Ocean County Jail.

Details on the victim's condition were not immediately available.

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