Staten Island man charged with selling drugs, standoff with cops over knife incident

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 58-year-old man was arrested following a standoff with police after he brandished a knife and threatened a victim in his home community of Elm Park, authorities allege.

Several weeks before that alleged encounter, the defendant, Charles Meizlik, was accused of dealing drugs in Port Richmond.

In the most recent arrest, on April 20, the criminal complaint alleges that Meizlik pointed a knife at a victim and said, “I will gut you,” in an incident that occurred in the vicinity of his Housman Avenue home…

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