An Upper East Side man has been arrested on an attempted murder charge in the vicious stabbing of a Chase Bank security guard in Manhattan.
Jorge Santiago, 34, was apprehended by the NYPD warrant squad on Einstein Loop in the Bronx at 12:30 a.m. Saturday.
Santiago was taken to the 19th Precinct, where he requested a lawyer when investigators began questioning him.
Santiago was carrying two knives on him at the time of his arrest. However, it was not immediately known if the weapons were the same used in the Friday attack.
The Manhattan DA’s office was expected to execute a search warrant for Santiago’s East 96th Street apartment. Santiago was charged with attempted murder, first-degree assault and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree.
In April 2013, Santiago was arrested for slashing another man across the face with a box cutter in the Bronx. The victim was treated for his wounds at Jacobi Medical Center. The disposition of that case was not immediately available.
In the latest incident, Santiago allegedly visited the Chase Bank on East 86th Street near Second Avenue before it opened and initially demanded the guard let him inside.
He then left and came back later, only to become unhinged when he was later told the services he needed had to be done by phone, cops and law-enforcement sources reported.
The guard was escorting the man out of the bank just after 9 a.m. when he whipped out a blade and plunged it into the guard’s neck while the two were in the vestibule.
The guard was in stable condition at Weill Cornell Medical Center, police said on Saturday.
Look at this scum, the DA will let him off with a stern talking to, as he murders many more.