Arias admitted Lynn stabbing

SALEM – Jurors listened Monday as accused murderer Yeison Arias confessed to stabbing someone during a 2009 fight but told police interrogators he did not know his victim.?If they showed you a photo you could tell – you recall if that was the kid you hit?” a police officer can be heard asking Arias during an hour-long interrogation recorded on April 13, 2009, three days after Carmelo Sandoval was fatally stabbed at the Shepard Street rink.?I don?t know, first time I saw him,” Arias replied.Assistant District Attorney James Gubitose played the videotape for jurors on Monday as they used written transcripts to follow along with the written exchange.A transcript of the tape filed in court identifies the interrogators as Detective Steven Pohle and State Trooper Robert Labarge. Police Officer Joseph Chadbourne translates the officers? questions from English to Spanish and Arias? replies from Spanish to English.Jurors heard the officers question Arias, 21, for about 20 minutes and then stop the interrogation and ask him if he watched television and is familiar with genetic evidence.?If you touch something and we check the victim for DNA, is there any reason your DNA is going to be from the knife in the victim?” Labarge can be heard asking Arias on the videotape, before asking, “So if you did cut, stab somebody, tell us now.”Arias can be heard saying on the videotape that he stabbed someone but that he did not know his victim.?What happened to the knife?” asks one of the officers.?I threw it in some alley,” Arias replies.?What made you pull out a knife?” Chadbourne asks Arias.?I was afraid. There were a lot more people than me,” answers Arias.During the interrogation, Pohle and Labarge – without naming Sandoval – try to show Arias a photograph of the stabbing victim and a white shirt worn by the victim. Arias asks if the photograph shows a dead person and says, “I don?t want to look.”At one point during the interrogation, Arias can be heard weeping. Pohle and Labarge halt the interview and one officer can be heard asking Arias, “You feel bad about this?”?It was my first time,” he replies.At one point in the interrogation, Pohle and Labarge asked Arias to demonstrate the stabbing and explain what he was doing. Two witnesses who testified in Superior Court last week said the stabbing occurred during a fight between several teenagers inside the rink?s entrance off Shepherd Street.?I opened the door, went around in front of him. He went to hit me and I went like that. I pulled it out immediately,” he said.Deivy Delarosa, one of the teenagers who was at the rink on the night of Sandoval?s death, testified last Wednesday that he saw Arias leave the rink, pull off a T-shirt and throw it over a fence before telling Delarosa to give him one of his shirts.State Police crime laboratory worker Erik Koester held up a T-shirt in court on Monday and told Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Kirshenbaum that he identified human blood on the shirt.The Arias trial began last Tuesday with opening arguments and prosecutors finished presenting their case on Monday. Judge David Lowy said he expects defense attorney Joseph Boncore to finish presenting witnesses on Tuesday and said attorneys will present closing arguments to the jury on Wednesday.Under questioning by Boncore, witness Isneldy Grullon on Monday testified how the rink fight began with at least 15 teens urging Antonio Quintana, who was 15 years old at the time, to swing at someone.?We got your back,” he testified the teens yelled.Quintana testified last week that he went to the rink on April 10 anticipating a fight with someone who sucker punched him two weeks earlier.Thor Jourgensen can be reached at [email protected].