Phoenix, NY – A Phoenix woman faces charges in Oswego and Onondaga counties after she allegedly attacked her boyfriend early this morning with a kitchen knife, Phoenix police said. Amanda H. Velez, 29, of 8 Lock St., Apartment 1, was charged with misdemeanor counts of second-degree menacing with a weapon, acting in a manner injurious to a child under 17...
Phoenix, NY – A Phoenix woman faces charges in Oswego and Onondaga counties after she allegedly attacked her boyfriend early this morning with a kitchen knife, Phoenix police said.
Amanda H. Velez, 29, of 8 Lock St., Apartment 1, was charged with misdemeanor counts of second-degree menacing with a weapon, acting in a manner injurious to a child under 17 and criminal mischief with the intent to damage property, Phoenix Police Chief Rod Carr said.
No one was hurt during the incident, Carr said.
After arraignment in Schroeppel town court Velez was turned over to sheriff’s deputies from Onondaga County, which had an outstanding robbery warrant against her, Carr said.
According to Carr, Velez’s boyfriend, Fredrick L. Johnson, 39, of 115 Erie St., Syracuse, said Velez became enraged sometime before 2 a.m. after he made a sandwich in her apartment. He told police that Velez knocked a television off its stand, breaking it, and allegedly picked up a kitchen steak knife and slashed at him while he held their daughter, Danielle, 1.
Johnson pushed Velez out of the apartment. Velez banged on and stabbed at the door for a while, Johnson said. When it became quiet after a couple minutes, Johnson said, he looked out the door to see Velez stabbing the tires of his 2001 Ford sport utility vehicle.
“He yelled at her and she came after him with the knife in a raised position,” Carr said. “He ran back to the house and called 911.”
Investigator Joe Marotta found Velez standing in the road at Lock and Main streets less than 50 feet from the house, Carr said. When Marotta ordered Velez to raise her hands she hesitated at first, then surrendered the knife, Carr said.
Velez is due back in Schroeppel town court on July 20, Carr said.