Palisades Park man, 33, charged in stabbing of Closter restaurant co-worker, 61

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A fight between two employees of a Closter Chinese restaurant left one stabbed in the back and another held on $75,000 bail.

Photo Credit: *Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF*

Jerry DeMarco

05/14/2014 2:45 p.m.

The 61-year-old victim was recovering this morning after surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center after being stabbed around 9 p.m. in the kitchen area of the Ewha Won Restaurant in the shopping center on Piermont Road, Closter Police Chief Dennis Kaine said.

The assailant — identified as 33-year-old Guatemalan national Antonio Lopez-Tuche of Palisades Park — then fled, Kaine said.

A Bergen County Sheriffs K-9 unit tracked Lopez-Tuche through the nearby woods before losing the scent, the chief said.

A little over two hours later, Closter officers found him walking along Piermont Road, he said.

Lopez-Tuche was being held in the Bergen County Jail on charges of aggravated assault and illegal weapons possession.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF

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