Suspect posts bail, stabs cab driver
Suspect posts bail, stabs cab driver
A Yellow Cab driver has been stabbed during a robbery.
Officials said the suspect, Jose Lopez, was in jail for outstanding warrants and bonded out around 6:30 Sunday morning.
Police said he was then picked up by a cab driver.
Officials said the 49-year-old driver was headed to the Gulf Freeway and Telephone road when, for some reason, he got lost and eventually stopped at a Valero gas station on Telepsen.
That's when, Investigators said, things started to heat up. Officials said the two men got into an argument and Lopez pulled out a pocket knife and stabbed the cab driver in the hand, then took off in his cab.
Investigators said Lopez was stopped about 45 minutes later at I-45 and Scott Street, and was arrested without incident.
Lopez could now face aggravated assault and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle charges.
The victim was taken to the hospital to treat his wound.
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