Cops: Hamptons diner worker wielded knife
Police said when an employee of the Hampton Bays Diner was asked to leave Sunday morning because he was drunk the man instead picked up a large knife and began waving it around, stabbing a garbage can another employee had grabbed for protection.
The knife-wielding employee was eventually arrested, police said.
No one was injured.
Southampton Town police said the incident occurred at the diner on Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays at 4:18 a.m.
It was then, police said, that Maurilio Ramires-Ortiz, 23, was asked to leave because he was intoxicated but instead "picked up a large kitchen knife and began waving it around."
Police said another employee grabbed a garbage can for protection only to have Ramires-Ortiz stab the can.
Police said Ramires-Ortiz was eventually subdued by employees who held him for police. Ramires-Ortiz was charged with first-degree attempted assault, second-degree menacing and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, police said. Arraignment details were not immediately available.
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