By BEN LUNDIN

Staff Reporter

LAPLACE – The St. John Sheriff’s Office captured a LaPlace man Tuesday for allegedly assaulting a pair of 20-year-old men on April 15, 2007, before he fled the scene with the two men bloodied in front of a home on Cartier Drive in LaPlace.

Officers booked Brandon Stewart, 19, of 2212 W. Canterbury Dr. in LaPlace with a $630,500 bond set by Judge Mary Hotard Becnel for simple burglary, criminal trespass and two counts of aggravated assault. A second attacker in the stabbing, Martrell Tuco, 21, of 1901 Yorktowne Dr. in LaPlace, was captured immediately following the event and charged with attempted second degree murder, second degree battery, principal to simple burglary, criminal trespass and second degree robbery.

On April 15 the two victims were allegedly sitting in the yard of a home on Cartier Drive at roughly 3 p.m. when Stewart and Tuco approached them and started a fight.

During the brawl Tuco brandished a kitchen knife and stabbed one of the victims in the lower left side before either Stewart or the other suspect thrust the knife into the second victim’s upper right chest, according a St. John Sheriff’s Office report.

On May 4, police investigated a home at 246 E. 13th St. in Reserve where Stewart was reportedly hiding out and Princess Creecy, 18, resided. Stewart was nowhere to be seen within the home and Creecy claimed to have never met him, before police warned her she would be taken into custody for harboring a fugitive if he was found on the premises.

Four days later Crimestoppers received a tip from that Stewart was at the home, and police returned to discover him and Creecy in the house.

Officers booked the pair and charged Creecy with assisting a felon as an accessory after the fact and enter or remain in place.