TOWN OF POUGHKEEPSIE – Police responded to the Red Roof Inn+ at 2349 South Road (Route 9) in the Town of Poughkeepsie on Tuesday, May 5, 2026, for a reported stabbing. Police from several different agencies and the Dutchess County Drug Task Force have responded to the hotel for reports of violence and drug sales on numerous occasions.
On Tuesday, according to the Town of Poughkeepsie police, their officers responded at approximately 6:45 a.m. to a reported stabbing.
First-arriving officers found both the alleged suspect and the victim in the lobby of the hotel.
Sixty-one-year-old Mance Carter, a convicted felon on parole after serving 25 years in prison for multiple felony robbery convictions, was taken into custody and charged with felony assault and felony criminal possession of a weapon, and resisting arrest, for allegedly stabbing the victim.
The victim was transported to a local hospital for further treatment, and the alleged assailant was arraigned in the Town of Poughkeepsie Justice Court and remanded to the Dutchess County Jail without bail.
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