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Guilty plea entered in stabbing case

A Glade Township man has pleaded guilty for his role in a stabbing earlier this year at a Cobham Park Rd. residence.

Nicholas K. Bennett, 35, has been incarcerated in the county jail since the incident.

He entered the plea — to charges of aggravated assault, DUI, terroristic threats, driver required to be licensed and criminal mischief — before Judge Gregory Hammond earlier this week.

Charges of aggravated assault, flight to avoid apprehension, strangulation and rape were not prosecuted in exchange for the plea.

According to the affidavit of probable cause, troopers were contacted by the 911 Center and arrived on scene shortly after 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 9. At that time, a 36-year-old male victim was being treated on scene by EMTs.

He was ultimately transferred to Warren General Hospital and then flown to UPMC Hamot for treatment.

Troopers “observed a large pool of blood near the front entry steps of the residence” as well as a “knife on the floor of the porch. There was also some bloody clothing lying next to the knife.”

Police interviewed a 36-year-old female at the scene. She reported that Bennett had been drinking whiskey for several hours and became angry, telling police he “punched (the) wall in several places” and “threw a large knife against the wall and held a small knife against her left leg.”

The woman reported that Bennett “was holding her and trying to put a choke hold on her … saying things like you know how it ends on Snapped” — a TV show that highlights murder cases.

The stabbing victim was called to the residence and found Bennett with the woman in a bedroom. The woman “stated that she yelled that Bennett had a knife and ran out of the bedroom to the car in the driveway.”

She then told police that a “short time” later the stabbing victim “came outside and lifted his clothing to show he had been stabbed.

Bennett exited the house and fled the scene in the Subaru that was parked in the driveway.”

Troopers interviewed the stabbing victim at UPMC Hamot. “The victim told (police) that he had pushed Bennett and then there was a brief scuffle. The victim was then stabbed by Bennett four times to his back and slashed once on his back. The victim was able to disarm Bennett.”

According to the criminal complaint, the knife was 7 inches long with a 3.5-inch blade.

Bennett was apprehended by police later that same evening.

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