Man arrested in alleged stabbing attack

Published 10:35 pm Tuesday, December 22, 2009

MARYSVILLE — Police believe the man whistled in a Marysville front yard to get the attention of people inside a home Monday night.

The whistling man, 28, was the ex-boyfriend of a woman who lived in the house, police said.

When her new boyfriend went to investigate what the noise was, the ex-boyfriend pinned him with the beam from a flashlight and then tried to cut him with a knife, according to a police affidavit filed Tuesday in Everett District Court.

Marysville police investigated the incident just before midnight in the 7300 block of 69th Avenue NE.

Officers said they found the suspect, bare-chested and walking in the street. The man yelled insults at the police.

When the officers asked the man his name, he flipped them off and claimed his identity was a collection of unprintable curse words. He also said he was headed back to prison.

The man was handcuffed and placed in the back of a patrol car, but he continued to struggle and make threats. He became more subdued after receiving an electric shock from a stun gun.

The man was booked into the Snohomish County Jail under his actual name. He was being held for investigation of second-degree assault.

A judge Tuesday ordered the man held in lieu of $25,000.

Jackson Holtz: 425-339-3437, jholtz@heraldnet.com.