Riverhead Teen Charged With Slashing Another

By Timothy Bolger Posted on September 15, 2013

A teenager has been accused of slashing a 16-year-old boy at a deli in Riverhead on Saturday afternoon, Riverhead Town Police said.

Jvon Creighton, 18, of Riverhead, got into a fight with the victim and allegedly cut the victim with a box cutter inside the Milly Deli & Cafe on Rail Road Avenue at 4:24 p.m., police said.

Officers apprehended Creighton after a foot chase, police said.

The victim was taken to Peconic Bay Medical Center, where he was treated for a non-life threatening laceration to his arm.

Creighton will be arraigned Sunday at Riverhead Town Justice Court.

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Timothy Bolger

Timothy Bolger is the Editor in Chief of the Long Island Press who’s been working to uncover unreported stories since shortly after it launched in 2003. When he’s not editing, getting hassled by The Man or fielding cold calls to the newsroom, he covers crime, general interest and political news in addition to reporting longer, sometimes investigative features. He won’t be happy until everyone is as pissed off as he is about how screwed up Lawn Guyland is.