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The victim was dropped at an area hospital on March 8 around 4:30 p.m. after he was assaulted at a property on the 4200 block of James Madison Highway in Haymarket, county police said.
During the investigation, detectives learned the victim had been assaulted by multiple male acquaintances, including Juan Manuel Mata Benavides, police said. At one point during the encounter, Benavideas struck the victim in the head with a baseball bat, knocking him unconscious, county police said.
The victim was then dropped off at the hospital where the police were contacted. Multiple search warrants were served with the assistance of local and federal partners resulting in firearms and scheduled I/II narcotics being seized.
On Thursday, April 4, Benavides was arrested and charged with aggravated malicious wounding, malicious wounding by mob, malicious wounding, assault by mob, assault & battery, abduction, unauthorized possession of a firearm, and possession of schedule I/II drugs
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