Crime & Safety
Wrong Man Arrested After Forest Hills Subway Stabbing: Report
Law enforcement dropped charges against a man they accused of an April stabbing in a Forest Hills subway station, according to a report.
FOREST HILLS, QUEENS — Law enforcement officers quietly dropped their charges against a man accused of stabbing a woman in the back in a Forest Hills subway station earlier this year, according to a news report.
Police arrested Daniel Arquette on April 16, after the 47-year-old woman identified him as the man who stabbed her inside the Forest Hills-71st Avenue subway station that night, the New York Daily News reported.
Like the woman's attacker, Arquette uses a wheelchair to get around, but he insisted he had been above ground when the stabbing happened — an alibi later proven by surveillance video, he and his lawyer told the Daily News.
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Arquette's lawyer, Todd Spodek, now plans to file suit.
“He was wrongly arrested and he was being wrongly prosecuted,” Spodek told the Daily News. “Now, for the rest of his life, if you Google him his arrest will come up.”
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