CITY LANDSCAPER STABBED.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer PALMDALE - A dispute with city officials might have prompted a man to stab a city worker, then chase him for more than a block, officials said. Richard Cundiff, 48, of Palmdale was arrested just before 10 a.m. Thursday after allegedly stabbing stab v. stabbed, stab·bing, stabs v.tr. 1. To pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon. 2. To plunge (a pointed weapon or instrument) into something. 3. a city employee working on the Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling greenbelt Greenbelt, city (1990 pop. 21,096), Prince Georges co., W central Md., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; chartered 1937. Greenbelt was planned and built by the federal government as an experimental model community for families of modest income. near Palmdale Boulevard. ``He came over the fence near where the city worker was doing some landscaping and he approached him and stabbed him,'' said Deputy Paul Ullman. The worker, whose name was not released, was stabbed in the chest but escaped injury, deputies said. The knife penetrated four layers of clothing and a pack of cigarettes in the worker's pocket, deputies said. ``If it had not been diverted di·vert v. di·vert·ed, di·vert·ing, di·verts v.tr. 1. To turn aside from a course or direction: Traffic was diverted around the scene of the accident. 2. that way it probably would have been a very serious injury,'' said Ullman. Cundiff had been involved in an ongoing dispute with city officials over whether he had been illegally obtaining electricity at the house trailer In communications, a code or set of codes that make up the last part of a transmitted message. See trailer label. he lived in near a business on 6th Street East. His electricity had been cut off and deputies believe that might have prompted the attack. Cundiff picked his victim at random, deputies said. After being stabbed, the city worker ran and used a hand-held radio to call his supervisors. They called deputies. Using a city radio to track the chase, deputies were able to locate the two at the corner of 8th Street East and Palmdale Boulevard. They took Cundiff into custody without incident. Cundiff was taken to the Lancaster sheriff's station, where he is being held in lieu of Instead of; in place of; in substitution of. It does not mean in addition to. $20,000 bail. |
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