Officers find him bleeding in car
Beacon officers made an arrest on Monday (Feb. 17) after finding a man bleeding from a stab wound at 7:15 a.m. in a vehicle parked in the lot at police headquarters.
The victim said he had been assaulted near Fishkill Avenue and Main Street a few minutes earlier. He was taken to a hospital in stable condition.
Using the department’s license-plate reader system, police identified a suspect and located his vehicle parked at the Tompkins Terrace apartments. They arrested Melvin A. Grant Jr., 26, of Beacon and obtained a search warrant for his apartment, where they seized a knife and clothing.
Grant was arraigned in Beacon City Court on charges of felony assault and misdemeanor criminal possession of a weapon and sent to the Dutchess County jail.
Dude will be out by tomorrow, that is how the liberal town of Beacon works.