Cadet fabricates stabbing; suspects released
By JPOST.COM STAFF
LAST UPDATED: 04/12/2012 23:41
Local police had arrest two 16-year-olds suspected of stabbing a Border Guard cadet in the upper body.
Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance Photo: Courtesy
Police released two 16-year-olds suspected of stabbing a Border Guard
cadet late Thursday after their investigation revealed that the cadet
had fabricated the attack.
Police had arrested the suspects earlier Thursday near Karmiel.
In a
press statement, police said that the 18-year-old stabbing victim had
been standing at an olive grove near a rest stop
along Route 854,
whereupon he was allegedly stabbed by the two suspects. His partner,
another Border Guard cadet, discovered him lying in the grove soon after
and alerted local authorities.
The IDF spokesman corroberated this sequence of events.
Police said that the cadet had been evacuated to hospital in Nahariya with light to moderate injuries.