Tampa Bay Criminal Defense Lawyer - Victim or Defendant?

By Nicholas Dorsten, Esq.

An interesting article from the St. Petersburg Times website re: a man who claimed that he was the victim of a battery but the police are saying that he was a robber who got the tables turned on him...

PINELLAS PARK — A barefoot, disheveled, 18-year-old man asked someone to call police after he said he was beaten and robbed early Monday, police said.

But he was arrested instead.

The man of St. Petersburg, Florida told police he was attacked near 49th Street N and 83rd Avenue just after 2:30 a.m. and lost his shoes fleeing his attackers.

But police responding to a nearby call, found two men, who said the suspect robbed and attacked them.

The two men had multiple stab wounds and were taken to Bayfront Medical Center, police said.

The suspect stabbed one victim 17 times and the other twice with a pocket knife, police said. The three were a home home when the suspect pulled a knife, robbed one of the men of $50 and stabbed them, police said.

He ran away, leaving his sneakers and the knife behind, police said.

The suspect, who remained in jail Monday, faces charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, robbery with a deadly weapon and marijuana possession.

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