A parolee with 26 busts under his belt – including a crime spree just last week – slashed a woman and a man back-to-back at an Astoria fish market Monday afternoon, cops and sources said.
Antonio Quinones, 35, allegedly swung a blade across 29-year-old Samantha Robles’ face after confronting her inside the Broadway Fish Market on Broadway near 48th Street around 4:20 p.m., according to police and the victim’s mother.
“This guy who has been hanging around for a while and has a record for the same s–t was outside and winds up slashing Samatha’s face,” the victim’s mother, Rachel Fernandez, told The Post by phone.
“She knew him from last year. He kicked my dog [last year].”
“All I know is my daughter called me screaming, screaming, screaming,” Fernandez said, adding she ran downstairs with her husband to see her daughter’s brutal gash.
Robles was taken to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where she was listed in stable condition, police said.
Quinones – who was released on parole in May in connection to a 2022 slashing on the same block – then stormed out of the store and confronted a 54-year-old man outside, cops and sources said.
He knocked the victim over, grabbed his scooter and cut him with a blade across his jacket, but did not pierce his skin, according to authorities and sources.
He fled after the 4:30 p.m. attack, but quick-acting cops busted him on the way back to his nearby apartment, sources said.
Quinones – who has 26 prior arrests on his record – was charged with assault with intent to cause injury, police said.
“The guy is always fighting with everyone,” a fish market worker said Tuesday.
“I always see him fighting in the streets with people. I don’t know if he drinks a lot or goes crazy.”
He wound up in cuffs just last week, on Feb. 24, after he allegedly snatched $2 from a tip jar at an Astoria liquor store, and then several hours later, punched a 20-year-old man in the face, according to the complaint filed against him.
The next day, Quinones allegedly went on a bottle-smashing frenzy inside another liquor store, the court doc said.
When cops tried to cuff him that evening in connection to the spree, he allegedly resisted and even kicked the door of the police car, according to the complaint.
He was arraigned on multiple charges, including misdemeanor assault, criminal mischief, petit larceny, resisting arrest and harassment in connection to last week’s crime – but ultimately cut loose on supervision under the state’s lax bail reform laws, prosecutors said.
“We asked for supervised release, which was the most that was allowed,” a spokesperson for the Queens DA’s Office said. “It was not bail eligible.”
His arraignments on the new assaults are pending in Queens Criminal Court.
“He should have been locked up,” said Fernandez, the slashing victim’s mother. “The guy is out of his f–king mind.”
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