14-Year-Old Accused Of Stabbing Man 30 Times
POSTED: Thursday, November 19, 2009
UPDATED: 7:22 am EST November 19,
2009
 Polk County Sheriff's Office photos of Noel Cruz-Diego |
LAKELAND, Fla. -- A teenage boy has been charged with stabbing a Lakeland man 30 times during a home invasion.Police said 14-year-old Noel Cruz-Diego broke into the home Tuesday night. When 55-year-old Daniel Granton confronted the teen, the boy stabbed the man repeatedly in the chest, took Granton's wallet and fled the scene.Cruz-Diego was later caught and arrested by police.Granton was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was listed in critical condition.The boy was charged with attempted felony murder, home invasion robbery, battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest with violence and two counts of burglary to a conveyance.The Polk County Sheriff's Office said Cruz-Diego has been arrested or taken into custody on nine on 27 separate charges in the past three years.
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