Crime & Safety
Police: Girlfriend Attacked with Butcher's Knife
Woodbine Street woman accused of lunging at her boyfriend with butcher's knife during argument on Sunday.
Bethlehem police say a city woman attacked her boyfriend with a butcher's knife at their home Sunday.
Yajaira Fernandez-Vasquez, 22, of 1322 Woodbine St., is charged with simple assault, harassment and reckless endangerment.
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According to court papers, police were called to Fernandez-Vasquez's address at 2:44 a.m. Sunday in response to complaints about arguing and crying children at the address.
There, Fernandez-Vasquez's boyfriend told officers they had gotten into an argument that escalated to her shoving him and lunging at him with a butcher's knife.
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Fernandez-Vasquez was arraigned before on-duty District Judge Richard Yetter of Wilson and released on $7,500 unsecured bail.
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