Cop’s son stabs man after botched pot deal

A Cleveland CLEVELAND — police officer’s son stabbed a man in the neck in front of his father following a botched Christmas Day marijuana deal, according to a police report.

No one has been charged in the incident that happened about 10:15 p.m. at a home on Flower Avenue in Cleveland’s West Boulevard neighborhood.

The officer’s 24-year-old son told investigators that the 20-year-old stabbing victim tried to rob him, a Cleveland police report says.

The officer’s son said the man picked him up from his house so that he could buy marijuana from him, the report says.

The 20-year-old instead drove the officer’s son around the block a few times and demanded $500, the report says. He held the son in the backseat against his will as he punched and choked him, the report says.

The son said he tried to kick out a back window so that someone could see he was under attack, the report says. He tried to push his way out of the car, but the driver wouldn’t let him, the report says.

The son eventually told the man that he had the cash in his bedroom, so they returned to the Flower Avenue home and the man followed the son inside, the report says.

The son told police that he pretended to put money in his pocket while they were in his bedroom. They left the room and walked downstairs right as the 56-year-old police officer walked into the house through a back door, the report says.

The son told the man that he needed to leave several times. He then told his father that he had been assaulted and that the man was trying to rob him, the report says.

As the police officer ordered the man to leave their house, the son pulled a steak knife from a kitchen drawer and sank it into the man’s neck, the report says.

The man ran away. His friends dropped him off at MetroHealth a short while later, where he was treated and placed under arrest, the report says.