Key West man beats up girlfriend; her sister’s boyfriend stabs him, cops say. 3 arrested.

A Key West couple was arrested on Saturday after police said they attacked a 24-year old man, with one stabbing him in the face.

The alleged victim was also arrested the next day.

Mario Antonio Morales, 24, was charged with felony grand theft and misdemeanor battery for a separate incident in which police said he threw his girlfriend into a wall and took her cellphone.

Alexia Feliciano, 19, who is the sister of Morales’ girlfriend, said she and her boyfriend, Ramon Leandro Richardson, 20, went to Morales’ neighborhood to confront him about the alleged beating.

Both Feliciano and Richardson were holding knives at the time they confronted Morales, according to the arrest report. But Feliciano told police she never took out the blade.

Feliciano said Morales punched Richardson in the face first, and then Richardson hit him with a camouflage knife.

RIchardson said he saw Morales bleeding from his neck area, police said.

Richardson was arrested on a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon without the intent to kill.

He was jailed on $75,000 bond and remained at the Stock Island Detention Center on April 20.

Feliciano was arrested on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without the intent to kill.

She was booked into the Stock Island Detention Center and released April 20 without having to post a bond.

Morales was jailed without bond.

At about 4:14 p.m. April 18, Key West police were called to the George Allen public housing apartments at 1200 First St.

Both Feliciano and Richardson made incriminating statements. They also told police, however, they believed Morales had a gun and had threatened to kill them. In the police reports, no gun was mentioned as being found.

Morales had already been taken to Lower Keys Medical Center.

Doctors later told police had the puncture wound been slightly at a different degree, it could have proved fatal since it was near a jugular vein.

Morales was later taken by helicopter to Kendall Regional Hospital on the mainland for further treatment, police said.

The next night, April 19, police arrested Morales on a warrant for allegedly beating his girlfriend and stealing her phone. He was jailed.

Gwen Filosa

Miami Herald

Gwen Filosa covers Key West and the Lower Florida Keys for FLKeysNews.com and the Miami Herald and lives in Key West. She was part of the staff at the New Orleans Times-Picayune that in 2005 won two Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of Hurricane Katrina. She graduated from Indiana University.