Police officer stabbed in scuffle

MILL CREEK – A Mill Creek police officer was recovering at home Monday after being stabbed in the arm.

Two other police officers also were slightly injured during a confrontation with a drunken man Sunday, according to police.

The suspect, Stephen P. McClane, was arrested for investigation of attempted murder and two counts of first-degree assault. He appeared briefly Monday in Everett District Court, where a judge ordered him jailed in lieu of $1 million bail.

One of McClane’s relatives called police just before 3 a.m. Sunday to report that McClane was refusing to leave his house in the 2800 block of 132nd Street SE. McClane, from Port Hadlock on the Olympic Peninsula, was temporarily staying at the house.

Officers asked McClane, who appeared to be drunk, to come outside.

McClane, 35, initially cooperated with police, Mill Creek Police Chief Bob Crannell said. As the officers began to search McClane for weapons, he reportedly said, “You’re not going to like this,” and pulled a 3-inch serrated paring knife out of his pocket, officers said.

McClane allegedly stabbed police officer Andrew Bass in the upper left arm, according to an affidavit filed in Everett District Court on Monday.

As Bass went to the ground, McClane, still armed with the knife, allegedly attacked two other officers. The officers wrestled McClane to the ground, police reported.

Bass was treated at Providence Everett Medical Center and later released.

“He’s fine. He’s home resting,” Crannell said.

Paramedics treated the other two officers for minor injuries.

McClane suffered a head injury during the struggle and also was taken to Providence Everett Medical Center, where he was treated and later booked into the Snohomish County Jail.

McClane told police he had been released from jail two days before the assault. He was under supervision by the state Department of Corrections.

He allegedly told police he stabbed the officer because he “didn’t want to go back to the joint.”