STOCK ISLAND, Fla. – A 55-year-old Stock Island man was arrested Wednesday after threatening a woman with a knife, authorities said.
According to Monroe County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Adam Linhardt, the 44-year-old victim told deputies that Armando Martinez-Corrales grabbed a knife from her hands while she was preparing food around 6:10 p.m. at a home on Fifth Avenue.
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Linhardt said Martinez-Corrales threatened to stab the victim and then left the home.
His relationship to the victim was not immediately known.
Linhardt said Martinez-Corrales was found a short time later sleeping on a boat on Sixth Avenue and was taken into custody.
He faces an aggravated assault charge.
The circumstances leading up to the incident weren’t immediately released.