An Arapahoe County woman has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing two housemates after the trio used methamphetamine, authorities said.
Dora Marquez, 31, was arrested Sunday night by Arapahoe County sheriff’s deputies who found a .38 caliber revolver in the console of the car she was riding in, the sheriff’s office said.
At about 9:30 a.m. Sunday, deputies were called to the Littleton Adventist Hospital emergency room to interview a woman who was being treated for stab wounds.
The stabbing victim, who was not identified, told deputies she was attacked by her housemate earlier in the morning at their home in the 200 block of East Orchard Road, according to a sheriff’s office press release. The stabbing victim told deputies a man at the home had also been stabbed.
Deputies went to the home and did find a 49-year-old man who had been stabbed. He was taken to Littleton Adventist to be treated.
The victims’ wounds were not life-threatening.
The suspect in the attacks had left the home by the time deputies arrived, but police kept an eye on the house and at about 11:50 p.m. saw a car parked out front with two people inside it, the sheriff’s office said.
The driver of the car drove away from the home and deputies pulled it over in the 5700 block of South Broadway.
Dora Marquez, who was a passenger in the car, was arrested on suspicion of second-degree assault and is being held at the Arapahoe County Jail, the sheriff’s office said. Her bond has been set at $50,000.
The driver of the car, an unidentified man, told deputies the revolver found in the console, along with a daisy BB gun, was put there by Marquez, the sheriff’s office said. The driver was not arrested.
Marquez has a long arrest record in the state, according to Colorado Bureau of Investigation computer records, including a 2007 guilty plea to felony menacing.
If convicted of the assault charge Marquez faces up to six years in prison.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com.
