A MASSENA MAN IS CHARGED WITH THREE FELONIES IN CONNECTION WITH A TRIPLE-STABBING INCIDENT SUNDAY.

            MASSENA POLICE SAY THEY WERE CALLED AT 9:15AM ABOUT A STABBING INCIDENT ON THE 100-BLOCK OF WATER STREET.  PRELIMINARY REPORTS INDICATE TWO MALES ENTERED THE RESIDENCE FOR THE SUPPOSED INTENT OF BUYING DRUGS.  THE TWO MALES, CARRYING KNIVES THEN ALLEGEDLY TRIED TO PULL OFF A ROBBERY, WOUNDING THREE PEOPLE.  A 26-YEAR-OLD MALE RECEIVED SEVERAL STAB WOUNDS AND WAS TAKEN BY PRIVATE VEHICLE FIRST TO CANTON-POTSDAM HOSPITAL, THEN TRANSFERRED TO FLETCHER-ALLEN HEALTH CARE IN BURLINGTON, VERMONT.  A 22-YEAR-OLD FEMALE RECEIVED STAB WOUNDS TO THE CHEST AND THROAT.  SHE WAS TRANSPORTED BY AMBULANCE TO MASSENA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.  A 24-YEAR-OLD MALE RECEIVED CUTS TO THE ELBOW AND ARM; HE WAS TAKEN BY PRIVATE VEHICLE TO MASSENA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, TREATED AND RELEASED.

            POLICE ARRESTED 27-YEAR-OLD TAPENI LA BRAKE OF HOWARD STREET ON FIRST DEGREE COUNTS OF BURGLARY, ASSAULT, AND ROBBERY.  HE WAS ARRAIGNED BEFORE TOWN JUSTICE JAMES CRANDALL AND COMMITTED TO ST.LAWRENCE COUNTY JAIL IN LIEU OF 100-THOUSAND-DOLLARS CASH BAIL OR A 2-HUNDRED-THOUSAND DOLLARS BAIL BOND.

            MASSENA POLICE CHIEF TIM CURRIER SAID YESTERDAY THE INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING, AND NO MORE DETAILS WILL BE RELEASED AT THIS TIME.