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January 11, 2008

Man, 64, charged with stabbing brother's girlfriend

TIVERTON — A Tiverton man will be arraigned this morning on a felony domestic assault charge after allegedly stabbing his brother’s girlfriend in the neck yesterday afternoon.

The police responded to 173 Hancock St. after receiving a 911 call at about 4:40 p.m. from a woman who reported that she had been stabbed in the neck.

Sgt. James Costa, Det. Michael Miguel and patrolman Brendan McKinnon found the 47-year-old woman bleeding from her lower neck, crying and hyperventilating, according to Deputy Chief Nicholas Maltais.

The woman told the police that she had argued with William A. Pelletier, 64 – who shares the house with the woman and his brother, her boyfriend – and he had stabbed her with a folding knife, Maltais said. The woman’s boyfriend was not home at the time.

Pelletier left the house before the police arrived, but the police were able to stop him nearby on Hurst Lane after a neighbor reporting seeing his car drive by. The police recovered the suspected weapon in the parking lot of New Harbor Mall, in neighboring Fall River, Maltais said.

Pelletier was arrested on a charge of domestic assault with a deadly weapon and he was held overnight for arraignment today in Newport District Court.

The woman was taken to St. Anne’s Hospital, in Fall River, before being transferred to Rhode Island Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition this morning, the police said. The police are not releasing her name.

— Journal staff writer Meaghan Wims

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