Fayetteville man arrested in connection with stabbing

Fayetteville police arrested Cornelius Anderson Oct. 9 after he stabbed and held captive a man he told police was his marijuana dealer.
Fayetteville police arrested Cornelius Anderson Oct. 9 after he stabbed and held captive a man he told police was his marijuana dealer.

A Fayetteville man was arrested Saturday night after holding another man captive and stabbing him, according to police. Cornelius Ryanell Anderson, 22, of 50 E. 7th St. was arrested Saturday in connection with aggravated assault, battery, false imprisonment, theft of property and terroristic threatening.

Police were called to Washington Regional Medical Center, 3215 N. Northhills Blvd., at 6:15 p.m Saturday after an emergency room patient reported being stabbed, according to police records. The patient told police the incident happened at apartments at 819 W. Piedmont Place.

When police arrived at the emergency room, a man told police he'd gone to Cornelius Anderson's apartment to collect a debt of $400, according to a police affidavit for Anderson's arrest. However, when the man asked Anderson about the money, Anderson brandished a folding knife at him and stabbed him in the side. The man told police Anderson pushed him into a bedroom, told him he would kill him and locked him in the bedroom. The man attempted to call a relative and Anderson came back into the room and took his phone. The man bolted from the room to his car when Anderson re-entered, he told police.

The man's girlfriend, who had been waiting in the car for him, told police the man's relative had called her saying he was in danger, according to the police affidavit. The woman went to the door of the apartment, told Anderson she wanted to talk to her boyfriend and as she was walking back to the car he ran from the apartment. The woman told police, shortly after her boyfriend entered the apartment, a man with a small beard and mustache and a hat emblazoned with "sophisticated stoner" left the apartment. The man, Anderson's roommate, later told police he had been in and out of the apartment and did not know an altercation had taken place, according to the affidavit.

Anderson told police he had not spoken to the man who had been stabbed, who he identified as his marijuana supplier, that day, according to the affidavit.

Anderson was being held Sunday in the Washington County Detention Center on a $7,500 bond.

NW News on 10/12/2015

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