An Upper East Side man has been arrested on attempted murder charges in the brutal stabbing of a Chase Bank security guard in Manhattan, police sources said.
Jorge Santiago, 34, was taken into custody by the NYPD’s Einstein Loop Task Force in the Bronx at 12:30 a.m. Saturday, the sources said.
Santiago was taken to the 19th Precinct, where he asked for a lawyer as investigators began questioning him, the sources said.
Santiago allegedly had two knives at the time of his arrest, but it was not immediately known if the weapons were the same used in Friday’s attack, the sources said.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office is expected to execute a search warrant at the apartment on East 96th Street in Santiago, the sources said.
Santiago is charged with attempted murder, first-degree assault and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, the sources said.
In April 2013, Santiago was arrested for slashing another man in the face with a box cutter in the Bronx, the sources said. The victim was treated for his wounds at Jacobi Medical Center. A decision on that case was not immediately available.
The security guard is in stable condition at Weill Cornell Medical Center. Jorge Santiago reportedly became disheartened when he was told that the services he wanted done at the bank had to be done over the phone. Matthew McDermott
In the latest incident, Santiago allegedly visited the Chase Bank on East 86th Street, near Second Avenue, before it opened and initially asked the security guard to let him in, the sources said. He then left and returned later, only to become distracted when he was later told that the services he needed had to be performed over the phone, cops and law enforcement sources said.
The security guard was ushering the man out of the bank shortly after 9 a.m. when he pulled out a blade and stabbed the guard in the neck while the two were in the lobby, cops said.
The guard was in stable condition at Weill Cornell Medical Center, police said Saturday.
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