Man gets 24 years in stabbing
20-year-old attacked woman in 2017 at Boynton apartment.
WEST PALM BEACH — A 20-year-old man who Boynton Beach police say stabbed a woman several times in her apartment in 2017 pleaded guilty Thursday afternoon, according to court documents.
Benito Felipe Crisanto pleaded guilty to attempted murder with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and burglary with a deadly weapon. He was sentenced to 24 years in prison by Palm Beach County Judge Samantha Schosberg Feuer, with credit for the 447 days he had spent in the Palm Beach County Jail since his arrest.
On March 28, 2017, police said Crisanto went to the apartment of his friend and his friend’s girlfriend in the Advenir at La Costa community near Gateway Boulevard and Congress Avenue. The friend told Crisanto he was moving to New York and that he should come to say goodbye.
When Crisanto arrived at the residence, he had a gun in his hand, police said. Crisanto’s friend was able to wrestle the gun away from him and then ran out of the apartment to get help.
During that time, Crisanto grabbed his friend’s girlfriend and stabbed her several times. The woman said she did not know where Crisanto got the knife. She said that when he stabbed her, he said, “I have to make a sacrifice.”
She later told police that during the attack, she told him he could take the money from the nightstand in her bedroom, hoping it would get him to stop.
Eventually Crisanto left and the woman collapsed outside on the sidewalk until medics arrived.
Crisanto was later arrested at a McDonald’s restaurant near the apartment complex.