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Man Charged with Threatening Four Relatives with Knife and Gun in Bayamón

Published Oct 21, 2026, 9:33 AM ASTvia WAPA TV

Puerto Rico police arrested Anthony Arriaga Colón, 36, a fugitive charged with threatening to kill four relatives with a bladed weapon and a pistol, in an incident reported this year on a date authorities did not specify. He was captured by officers of the Intelligence and Arrests Division of Bayamón at the Rafael 'Falín' Torrech public housing complex in Bayamón, after a judicial order was issued.

Arriaga Colón faces charges of carrying an unlicensed firearm, pointing a firearm, and carrying and using a bladed weapon. According to the investigation, he allegedly had an argument with a sister, his brother-in-law and the brother-in-law’s two brothers, during which he allegedly pulled out a bladed weapon and then threatened and pointed a pistol at them.

He was brought before Judge Miriam Stefan Acta of the Bayamón Court, who ordered him held at the Bayamón Regional Prison after he could not pay bail.

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