Miami Beach man punched girlfriend in the head and threw knives at officers, cops say

A Miami Beach man is in jail after police said he punched his girlfriend in the head and hurled knives at the cops who showed up.

It began with a fight over money, according to the Miami Beach Police report.

Steven Duplessy, 27, and his girlfriend of eight years had an early morning argument. After the fight, she lay back in bed and tried to go back to sleep. But according to police, Duplessy banged the door open, barged in and punched her in the forehead so hard she started bleeding.

She took an Uber to the hospital, where her wound was stitched up. She called police on the way.

Miami Beach Police arrived at the Harding Avenue home to find Duplessy barricaded inside. An officer said he saw Duplessy throw a brick at him, but it bounced off the hurricane impact window and fell to the floor.

Another officer saw Duplessy holding a folding knife with a curved blade. The officers told Duplessy to drop the knife and show his hands, but instead they said he grabbed another knife — a steak knife.

“The defendant began taunting officers by hiding in the bathroom and flashing the knife in and out of the bathroom, while making threats to throw a knife at me,” an officer wrote in the report.

Duplessy then hurled the steak knife at one of the officers through an open window, shortly followed by the other knife in the direction of a hostage negotiator, the report said.

Around 12:30 p.m., “Via S.W.A.T. tactics applied, the defendant surrendered and exited the open bedroom window,” the officer reported.

Duplessy was not injured. He was charged with aggravated battery, aggravated assault on a police officer and resisting arrest without violence.

This story was originally published March 29, 2019 at 10:16 AM.