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Suspect Wanted For Revere Stabbing Captured In Route 1 Traffic In Saugus

SAUGUS (CBS) – Massachusetts State Police took a stabbing suspect who was in a stolen truck into custody at gunpoint during the Thursday morning commute on Route 1 in Saugus.

It happened around 8:30 a.m. near the shopping plaza that includes Skechers, Vitamin Shoppe and Starbucks.

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State Police on Route 1 in Saugus after the incident Thursday morning. (WBZ-TV)

Traffic was briefly stopped following the incident, but began to flow again when cruisers moved off the road into the plaza parking lot.

State Police said 32-year-old Jason Dulcetta was wanted for stabbing a family member in the chest with a crowbar in Revere around midnight.

The incident happened on Jordan Street. One man was taken to an area hospital. Sources told the WBZ-TV I-Team that the victim is expected to survive.

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Police said the man was stabbed at this home on Jordan Street in Revere early Thursday. (WBZ-TV)

An officer saw a person he believed to be Dulcetta in the victim's stolen Ford F250 at McDonald's and called for backup around 8 a.m. The trooper and additional cruisers surrounded the truck and arrested Dulcetta without incident.

Dulcetta is charged with attempted murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon on a person over 60 years old, and using a motor vehicle without authority.

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