Woman Charged With Attempted Murder After Attacking Boyfriend: Police

CALVERTON, NY — A woman was arrested and charged after attacking her boyfriend and cutting his neck, police said.

According to Riverhead Town Police, the incident took place in Calverton on Sunday, July 24. A call came in from a residence on Fresh Pond Avenue regarding a man who had approached the home, seeking assistance for a bleeding knife wound to his neck, police said.

Daniel Saavedra, 48, of Queens, said that earlier in the evening, he was a passenger in a vehicle operated by this then-girlfriend, Claudia Patricia Garcia Vargas, 53, also of Queens, police said.

Saavedra said Garcia Vargas stopped her vehicle on the side of the road on Fresh Pond Avenue and attacked him with an unknown type of knife or sharp object, cutting his neck and causing "substantial pain and bleeding" and requiring hospitalization, police said.

Saavedra was transported by the Wading River Fire Department to Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead for treatment of his injuries, police said.

On Tuesday, after further investigation, the Riverhead Police Department's detective division arrested Garcia Vargas, in Queens with the assistance of New York City Police Department detectives, police said.

She was taken to the Riverhead Police Department where she was charged with one count of second-degree attempted murder; one count of first-degree assault; and one count of fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, police said.

She was processed on the charges and held for arraignment; the investigation remains ongoing, police said.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to to contact the Riverhead Police Department's detective division at 631-727-4500, ext 289.