Siesta Key Bungalows Manager Stabbed With Landscaping Light

A hotel guest told to leave became infuriated and stabbed the manager in the stomach, according to the sheriff's office..

A Siesta Key hotel manager is recovering from a stab wound after an irate customer used a landscaping light to puncture the manager's stomach, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office. Deputies responded to The Siesta Key Bungalows, 8212 Midnight Pass Road, near noon for a reported stabbing. The manager, Lisa Chavez-Barrera, 39, informed a hotel guest, Carmela Angela Benevento, that she has to leave the property, but Benevento was angered, broke off a landscaping light and stabbed Chavez-Barrera with the pointed end of the light, according to the sheriff's office. Witnesses told the sheriff's office that the suspect then threatened a bystander with the same weapon. Benevento was immediately taken into custody and has been charged …

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