Update: JPD makes arrests in stabbing, assault incidents

Update | 4:25 p.m. Jan. 4, 2015

Juneau Police have made an arrest in last night’s stabbing incident. Lt. Kris Sell says Joshua Paul Feak, 26, has been arrested for felony 2nd degree assault. He’s being held at Lemon Creek Correctional Center.

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It was a busy weekend for Juneau Police.

One man was arrested early Saturday for allegedly assaulting officers who were responding to a report that he was trying to fight with a cab driver downtown. JPD also is investigating an early morning stabbing Sunday in the Mendenhall Valley.

Officers had to use a taser on Jackson Lee Benedict Buchanan, 28, who allegedly picked a fight with a cab driver and a bystander on Front Street at about 1 a.m. Saturday. Police say Buchanan spat on officers, assaulted them and was warned before being tased. A press release says he continued to fight and thrash after being put into a patrol car before being strapped to a gurney and transported by ambulance to Bartlett Regional Hospital.

Buchanan was later lodged at Lemon Creek Correctional Center and charged with five misdemeanors, including assault, assault on a police officer, criminal mischief, harassment and disorderly conduct.

About 3 a.m. Sunday police received a call from Bartlett’s emergency room that a 17-year-old boy was there with two stab wounds. The boy is expected to recover, but one of the wounds collapsed a lung.

Police say in a release that the victim and another teenage boy were walking on Tongass Boulevard after leaving a nearby house party when two older men approached them and asked for marijuana. After the teens said they didn’t have any pot, a fight allegedly broke out between the two parties during which the 17-year-old was stabbed.

Police say a suspect has been identified and an investigation is continuing.

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