Arrest Made in Machete Attack Near Mantoloking Bridge
Two New York men face assault charges
Authorities arrested two New York City men and charged them in a machete assault on the barrier island side of the Mantoloking Bridge Wednesday night.
According to Ocean County Prosecutor Marlene Lynch Ford, eyewitnesses placed 911 calls at approximately 7:09 p.m. Wednesday reporting that an individual brandishing a machete-type weapon was involved in an altercation with other individuals near the intersection of Route 35 and Herbert Street in Mantoloking.
Based on a vehicle description given by the eyewitnesses, Mantoloking police stopped a blue Subaru with New York license plates and found a back seat passenger, identified as Michael Villanueva, 25, of New York City, with blood on his arms and clothing, Ford said.
Police later learned three people were being treated at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold for "slashing and penetrating wounds inflicted by a sharp weapon," Ford said.
An investigation revealed those individuals sustained their injuries during the altercation with Villanueva and the Subaru's driver, Lenin Herrera, 26, of the Harlem section of Manhattan, said Ford.
Both Villanueva and Herrera were charged with aggravated assault, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, the machete, possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes and unlawful possession of a weapon.
Bail for both men was set at $250,000 cash by Superior Court Judge Stephanie M. Wauters. Neither of the two men were listed as being inmates in the Ocean County or Monmouth County jails Thursday night, according to jail records.
Police are still investigating the incident, Ford said. Anyone with information on the alleged assault is being asked to call Detective Thomas Tiernan of the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office at 732-929-2027 or Patrolman William Shewan of the Mantoloking Police Department at 732-892-0832.
maddy
11:19 pm on Thursday, June 21, 2012
WTF!?!? This is a crazy story.
SoylentGreen
1:16 am on Friday, June 22, 2012
12am bar closing would have prevented this
vickie
7:41 am on Friday, June 22, 2012
It was 7:09 pm. Your comment doesn't even make sense! Read the article. Stop blaming the bars.
Betty Ann Fuller
7:49 am on Friday, June 22, 2012
@Vickie. You are right. Guess people just want to see their fake names on this site.
pd
8:00 am on Friday, June 22, 2012
Or they want to show that bad things can happen at any time of day.
SoylentGreen
12:37 pm on Friday, June 22, 2012
I see Sarcasm is lost on both you and Vickie. Sad really.
Betty Ann Fuller
7:50 am on Friday, June 22, 2012
And look at the time they wrote their own comment!
DIANE
3:57 pm on Friday, June 22, 2012
LMAO
vickie
7:58 am on Friday, June 22, 2012
LOL betty ann! Too funny!!!
Shoreboy380
8:17 am on Friday, June 22, 2012
MrCommonSense, too funny
Boose
8:21 am on Friday, June 22, 2012
Vickie & Betty Ann it's called sarcasm...
SoylentGreen
12:38 pm on Friday, June 22, 2012
Yup, its a shame some around here are as sharp as string of cooked spagetti.
Concerned Citizen United
9:18 am on Friday, June 22, 2012
close Hwy 35 from may thru Oct, enter only by sailboat
BGH or act normal
9:21 am on Friday, June 22, 2012
Well, media keeps glorifying bad behavior particularly down the shore... Wish there was a way we could make a " bennie" free zone... I mean really smoking is not good for us, banned all over, 20 oz soda no good for us banned, etc etc... Well all know Bennies ruining our beaches & towns during the summer and now threating us with machete assault ....." wheres bloomburg when you need him???" cant he ban them too?? keep them in NY. I have I idea, once a Bennies is arrest any where with in our shore line they get driven right back to NY, more then 2 arrest NOT allowed to return to NJ shore area ....
Part Timer
2:52 pm on Friday, June 22, 2012
Check your local paper every week a count the numbers, you might be surprised at who many live around you.
KC
2:22 am on Saturday, June 23, 2012
This is where I say to myself "Who in the name of all that is holy, drives around with a machete?" I am sorry, but they sound like they are from New York by way of a South American jungle. We have it all right here in River City. Bennies and Pineys. God help the rest of us. Be careful, stay safe, stay smart - don't get into altercations and stay alive.
Concerned Citizen United
9:39 am on Friday, June 22, 2012
Close Hwy 35 and The Mantoloking Bridge from May 1 st thru October, Close Hwy 35 from Manasquan River to Lavalette, only locals allowed to pass/enter. all others could travel GPS south to Rte 37 and enter Seaside Park/ Hgts.and all points north to Lavalette.there.
14ysinbrick
7:58 pm on Friday, June 22, 2012
LIKE
Jim
10:28 am on Friday, June 22, 2012
I suggest mandatory swimming tests for all Bennies. If you are from Newark, Harlem, Patterson etc you get to take the test with lead boots.
SoylentGreen
12:53 pm on Friday, June 22, 2012
Most people from these cities can't swim anyway
bayboat
10:55 am on Friday, June 22, 2012
12am PPB bar closing would keep most of the machete crowd away in the first place. Maybe theyre on to something after all.
Mark Story Jenks
11:17 am on Friday, June 22, 2012
Machete sale at Harbor Freight. Stock up @ $4.99, fight fire with fire. Sometimes a 2x4 is more affective. Maybe a large rock?
Buckshot? Would a stand-your-ground law work here in NJ?
M.O.D.
12:37 pm on Friday, June 22, 2012
Welcome to the real world, Mantoloking.
SoylentGreen
12:39 pm on Friday, June 22, 2012
And least anyone wonder, this incident was gang related.
Joe
1:02 pm on Friday, June 22, 2012
Thank sleeside for these thugs. I agree if your arrested at the shore your not welcome back for 5 yrs. From the parkway east to ocean your banned. And if caught back her for another incident jail time.
none of yobusiness
7:13 pm on Friday, June 22, 2012
What do you expect? That is acceptable behavior in places like Harlem. Im with Mark except im getting my machete cheaper as I have a 20 percent coupon along with the free flashlight so i can use that badboy in the dark!
kathy
8:29 am on Saturday, June 23, 2012
Mantoloking is just a glorified brick town, which inturm has turned into lakewood. So its no wonder... This isn't the first incident on that bridge, wasn't there a fatal hit and run years back when a cyclist was killed?
zipit
4:40 pm on Saturday, June 23, 2012
What are you talking about.... Ive lived in Brick for 15 years NEVER saw anyone walking around machete's... IF YOU read they where not from Brick NOR Did it happen in Brick...
Stewart Pidity
12:06 pm on Saturday, June 23, 2012
Are the brand new taxpayer funded parks on the Brick side of the bridge ready for the onslaught of orthodox, tax devouring, cult members coming from Lakewood to take them over like they did our reservoir?
zipit
4:41 pm on Saturday, June 23, 2012
@ Stewart well they will not be in any of " OUR" parks on Suturday & last I checked most parks are public Opened for anyone & everyone that wants to go....
Art Penrose
5:10 pm on Saturday, June 23, 2012
It's time to revisit the concealed carry laws in New Jersey. We should all be allowed to defend ourselves against trash like this.
Pete
8:21 am on Sunday, June 24, 2012
Art, I feel strongly that they should revisit the concealed carry laws in New Jersey. We should be able to defend ourselves against trash like this. Down South they carry guns and will use them if necessary, in situation like this. A town should be able to make their own rules to keep out the wrong visitors and if no one likes them. Do not come to visit.
M.O.D.
10:06 am on Sunday, June 24, 2012
That's all well and good, but how would you like to be passing through a town where YOU were considered to be a "wrong visitor"? Did you not take History in school?
Pete
8:49 am on Monday, June 25, 2012
M.O.D., Wrong person meaning a person who is causing trouble no matter where you are from. So I guess you were assuming too.
KMurray
8:21 am on Monday, June 25, 2012
Some of the people that visit this area are bad, and some of the people that live here are bad. This article is incomplete, and does not give details about where the people involved in this crime were coming from or going to. Every one assumes that they were bennies! I'm going to wait and see if more info is revealed, but this incident could be related to gang activity spilling in to this area from Lakewood. Reading the comments on these articles makes me ashamed to be a local! I would just like to state that not all people who live here are bigots. We don't all make decisions and judgments about fellow human beings based on whether a person was lucky enough to be born here!
Pete
8:56 am on Monday, June 25, 2012
KMurray, I was refereeing to individuals who are visiting who are starting trouble. Not where you are from. I have to disagree with you... I have to say there is more bigots then you think living here. You should be ashamed to be a local because some do not even treat individuals nice or make them feel comfortable that have been living down here for years. I have read the hatred on other articles with the comments. According to some it is happening all over.... they get treated the same way when they go to another area, city, state, country or island.
JMI
1:47 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012
PEOPLE PASS JUDGEMENT BASED ON MEDIA, BUT IGNORANCE WILL ALWAYS BE A BLISS...THE GUYS THAT WERE INJURED WERE ACTUALLY THE ONES DRUNK, (WHITE) MEN, PROBABLY FROM NJ....HOPE THEY LEARNED NOT TO EVER TRY TO ATTACK RANDOM PEOPLE ON THE HIGHWAY JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE HEAVILY INTOXICATED!!
MillieBGeronimo
1:38 pm on Sunday, July 1, 2012
First of all get your story straight ... the injured were in a car and were attached they are human beings regardless of their race. They mixed latin and medditerean but that is not a factor what give then the right to hurt someone so brutally regardless and they were not armed as where those crazy dominicans who think they are back home in the campo with chicken ok also were intoxicated and carrying illegal aweapons in the car guns machete? How to I know because these boys and their family thank you! so i got the info from the source........
MillieBGeronimo
1:41 pm on Sunday, July 1, 2012
oops regardless of the typos i hope people realize you cannot go around taking the law into your own hands. as in some other countries.... they should be deported back to the dominican republic.
Phineas J Whoopee
6:32 am on Monday, July 2, 2012
Vanessa, judging by your writing style, its no wonder your "bro's" were involved in this "attack"
Lenny
9:31 am on Thursday, July 5, 2012
Machetes in Mantoloking !! What's the world coming to!!, "Hurry Buffy, start up the BMW and let's go to the Hamptons !!