A man's throat was slashed in a fight over a cell phone at the Mineola Train Station last Monday, according to police.

The victim, 23, who identified himself as both Miguel Rodriguez and Omar Martinez, according to POPS Officer Harry Reddan, received a single wound to the neck and was taken to Winthrop-University Hospital shortly after 2:30 p.m.

Witnesses said the perpetrator walked the victim into the east side waiting room and slashed the victim's neck after accusing him of stealing a cell phone.

Reddan had been called to the station earlier to talk to the victim about his alleged pan handling. The victim told him he was from Ronkonkoma, and Reddan advised him to go to the south side of the tracks if he wanted to get a train home.

As Reddan left the station, he received the call to return and found the victim bleeding profusely.

"Miguel was standing there with his T-shirt to his neck," said Reddan. He told the victim to pull his shirt away. "It looked like a second mouth in his neck"

Reddan said the victim was reluctant to seek medical attention, but he was convinced and an ambulance arrived to attend to him.

Witnesses gave Reddan a description of the perpetrator as an Hispanic man, six feet tall and with a tattoo on his left arm and said he fled north, across the pedestrian bridge.

Nassau County Police stopped Juan Martinez, 23, of Mineola, in the parking lot of the EAB Bank on the southeastern corner of Second Street and Mineola Boulevard. The police returned him to the train station and he was identified as the assailant, arrested and charged with assault.