80 stitches for victim attacked by homeless man with broken bottle outside Port Authority bus terminal

BEYOND BERGEN: A 57-year-old man needed 80 stitches to close his wounds after a homeless man attacked him with a broken bottle across the street from the Port Authority 42nd Street bus terminal in midtown Manhattan yesterday, police said.

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Jerry DeMarco

12/17/2014 3:02 p.m.

Two Port Authority officers flagged down by witnesses grabbed the alleged assailant at 41st and Eighth, the authority’s Joseph Pentangelo said this morning.

The victim told them that 47-year-old Candido Jerez grabbed a bottle, broke it on the ground and attacked him with it when he didn’t give him a cigarette.

He was cut on the head, chest and hand, Pentangelo said.

Jerez was charged with assault and illegal weapons possession, he said, noting that the incident didn’t occur on authority property.

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