CHALMETTE, La. — Deputies from the St. Bernard Sheriff's Office arrested 37-year-old Alvin Langsford III as a suspect in connection with a stabbing that occurred in the 2900 block of Marietta Street on Saturday.
According to Sheriff James Pohlmann, deputies responded to the call shortly before 6 p.m. and once on the scene found a man on the ground with multiple lacerations following a disagreement with the suspect.
Langsford was located shortly after the incident and taken into custody. The resident in the 2700 block of Lyndell Drive was booked with aggravated second-degree battery.
The victim was taken to the hospital for medical treatment.
Sheriff Pohlmann said both men were acquaintances, but that the stabbing was an isolated incident between the two men and no one else was injured.
Pohlmann is asking anyone with information relating to this incident or any other criminal activity in St. Bernard Parish to call the sheriff's office at (504) 271-2501 or Crimestoppers GNO at (504) 822-1111.
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