The police have arrested a 16-year-old suspect in the fatal stabbing of a radio journalist, George Weber, who was found in his Brooklyn apartment last Sunday, law enforcement officials said. The teenager, who lives in East Elmhurst, Queens, was arrested in Middletown, N.Y., on Tuesday night, the officials said. Charges were pending. The officials said that Mr. Weber, 47, and the teenager apparently met through the Craigslist Web site. One of the officials, who declined to be identified because he was not authorized to speak about the case, said that Mr. Weber had posted advertisements on Craigslist and messages on his Facebook page saying that he was interested in meeting young Hispanic men. Another official, the police department™s chief spokesman, Paul J. Browne, said, œWe believe that he met Weber over the Internet through Craigslist and that they agreed to meet and that while he was inside Weber™s apartment he stabbed him approximately 50 times.
Detectives arrested the teenager at 11 p.m. on the street in front of a bus depot in Middletown, Mr. Browne said. œHe subsequently made statements implicating himself in the stabbing death. The teen was being held this morning at the 76th precinct stationhouse in Carroll Gardens.
Mr. Weber was found in his apartment, where he lived alone, at 561 Henry Street in Carroll Gardens on Sunday morning. An autopsy performed on Monday and the police said that he had been stabbed in his head, his neck, the front and rear of his torso, his arms and his hand s. The police have said they believed that Mr. Weber was killed on Friday night. He had worked recently as a freelance anchor for ABC News Radio, the national network, after several years working at WABC-AM (770), including time on the talk radio program hosted by Curtis Sliwa and Ron Kuby.
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