Woman Arrested After Stabbing Husband in Car

Monday, Apr 26, 2010 1:10pm  |  COMMENTS (14)

A woman was arrested on Sunday, on charges that she stabbed her husband during an in-car altercation, Lt. Scott Buehler of MPD said.
At about 6:30pm, police found Frank Marino, 49, of Newark, in the middle of the northbound lane in front of a driveway on Upper Mountain Ave, near Watchung Ave. He had been stabbed on the right side of his chest, had trouble breathing, and his Mitsubishi Galant was parked in the middle of the street, with the door open on the driver’s side. Residents and passersby had attended to him until police arrived.
He told police his wife, Jacqueline Smith-Marino, 41, also of Newark, had stabbed him during an argument as he was driving. They had earlier left Willowbrook Mall in Wayne.
A black-handled Ginsu kitchen knife with a bloodied, five-inch blade was found in the grass verge by the southbound lane of Upper Mountain Ave. It wasn’t known where the knife had been prior to the incident. Witnesses driving behind Marino’s vehicle said the car suddenly stopped, and moments later, Marino exited the vehicle, visibly bleeding and clutching his chest, and he collapsed in the middle of the street.
Marino was admitted to St Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson and is in critical condition.
Police found 17 prescription pills and three partial ones on Smith-Marino, for which she was unable to produce a valid prescription. She was charged with possession of a weapon, aggravated assault and possession of a controlled dangerous substance, among other charges. She is in custody and bail has been set at $25,000.

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14 Comments

  1. POSTED BY cathar  |  April 26, 2010 @ 2:11 pm

    “It wasn’t known where the knife had been prior to the incident?” And why would this even matter if its most recent probable prior location to the grass verge was inside Mr. Marino’s chest? Honestly, the writing gets worse and worse on this site on a daily basis.
    I used to think it was just verbal sloppiness, that it had much to do with the rushed nature of posts. Lately I’m not so sure.
    This item is, however, testimony of sorts to the efficacy of those “as seen on TV” Ginsu knives.

  2. POSTED BY kidnextdoor  |  April 26, 2010 @ 3:34 pm

    Gasp! A stabbing in Montclair. What will one do now.

  3. POSTED BY Blu  |  April 26, 2010 @ 3:40 pm

    Cathar, where the knife was prior to when it was used to stab Mr. Marino may go to intent. If the knife was hidden on Mrs. Marino and could be shown to be, it may prove premeditation. If the knife just happened to be on the floor of the car from some previous picnic, then maybe it was a spontaneous action.

  4. POSTED BY batman jammies  |  April 26, 2010 @ 4:15 pm

    Well said and accurate.

  5. POSTED BY appletony  |  April 26, 2010 @ 4:28 pm

    In my mind, the altercation went like this:
    Woman – I want to buy “x”
    Man – “x” costs too goddamn much!
    Woman – [brandishes genuine Ginsu knife] NOW HOW MUCH WOULD YOU PAY?
    Man – WTF?
    Woman – BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!!! [stab]

  6. POSTED BY mtcmom  |  April 26, 2010 @ 5:02 pm

    Those ginzus are wicked, we had one once and it could cut anything – whether you wanted it to or not. I would definitely not have it lying around my car.
    And I’m wondering where was the wife after he was stabbed. Just sitting quietly in the passenger seat while passersby attended to the bleeding husband?

  7. POSTED BY mrs. monhaus  |  April 26, 2010 @ 9:04 pm

    St. Joseph is 25 min away vs. Mountainside 5 min.??? That’s terrible.

  8. POSTED BY Nellie  |  April 26, 2010 @ 9:19 pm

    Conversation went like this:
    Woman: I can’t believe you drove me through the front window of Hampton House again!
    You can figure out the rest….

  9. POSTED BY cathar  |  April 27, 2010 @ 8:55 am

    The poster above who offered up an apparently serious “explanation” of why where the knife had previously been (as well as the poster who applauded this nonsense) is important completely missed the point.
    Ms. Baum’s item is very badly written, and the standard such gobbledygook (three partial prescription pills? how “partial?”) represents seems more often than not the norm here on Baristanet of late. This site’s founding partners at least wrote fairly clearly. Today, however, it doesn’t seem as there’s any such oversight by said founders as editing for clarity and grammatical sense, let alone too many items which are still written by either of them. As a result, this site suffers palpably and openly.
    It is also hard to conceive of anyone simply having a Ginsu knife casually lying on the floor of anyone’s car, I might plausibly suggest. Not even one driven by Billy Mays.

  10. POSTED BY profwilliams  |  April 27, 2010 @ 9:47 am

    (Careful cathar, writing a very timely and true statement may be misconstrued as a “personal attack.”)
    Though since the ShamWOW guy got arrested for beating someone up, he might, just might, have a Slap Chop food chopper at the ready.

  11. POSTED BY Blu  |  April 27, 2010 @ 1:13 pm

    Cathar wrote:
    “It wasn’t known where the knife had been prior to the incident?” And why would this even matter if its most recent probable prior location to the grass verge was inside Mr. Marino’s chest?
    You asked why it might matter, I explained why. Believe me that it will come up as an issue at the perp’s trial.
    I did not defend the lack of elegance of the writing, only the reason for including the comment (which likely came from the police anyway) in the article.

  12. POSTED BY batman jammies  |  April 27, 2010 @ 10:53 pm

    “clarity and grammatical sense”? Physician, heal thyself.

  13. POSTED BY Stiv Bators  |  April 28, 2010 @ 8:51 am

    Wifey clearly chews on the prescription pills as if they were after-dinner mints. I don’t see why that’s so surprising.

  14. POSTED BY DagT  |  April 30, 2010 @ 11:58 pm

    I’m partial to those partials.

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