A Barrow man cut his roommate's neck with a knife during an alcohol-fueled argument over the weekend, causing injuries that sent the victim to an Anchorage hospital, according to court records and charging documents.
Records show that 28-year-old Arnold G. Stine is charged with one domestic-violence count of attempted murder in the Saturday incident, which was investigated by the North Slope Borough Police Department.
A Wednesday complaint requesting an arrest warrant for Stine, written by Detective Sgt. Nicolas Gueco, said police responded shortly before 2 p.m. Saturday to a 911 call from the 1500 block of Nanook Street. The homeowner at that address had reported that "there are two guys fighting and there is a lot of blood."
On arrival, police found a bloody, foot-long knife lying outside the home. One man was sitting in the home's bathroom with an 8-inch cut along his neck and several smaller neck wounds, while Stine was lying on a couch; one arriving officer said the two were "covered in blood."
Both men were taken to the Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital in Barrow for treatment. Stine received stitches, and the man whose neck had been slashed was later flown to the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage with life-threatening injuries.
The homeowner told investigators that he, Stine and the other man had been drinking Saturday when an argument between the other two men escalated into a stabbing. He said he grabbed the knife and threw it outdoors, then ran outside to call police.
The victim, who Gueco said lived with Stine, said in police interviews that the day's drinking had moved from beer to liquor. He fell asleep upstairs but later heard the other two men arguing downstairs and the homeowner shouting for help.
When the victim went downstairs and confronted Stine, he told investigators that Stine responded with an expletive, then slashed at him several times with the knife.
"(The victim) stated he did not know he was cut on his neck until he felt his warm blood running down," Gueco wrote. "(He) stated on a scale of 1 to 10 when his neck was cut by Arnold his level of pain was either an 11 or 12."
Stine told police he'd usually had control of his temper in previous verbal arguments with the victim, who "used to boss him around" and sometimes got angry over how he spoke. He said Saturday's argument happened because the victim "always thinks for him," which he found irritating.
Stine told police he blacked out during the fight, which he attributed to the alcohol, but didn't think either of the other men present had cut the other man's neck.
An Alaska inmate database listed Stine in custody with police Thursday morning. Court records indicated he was scheduled to be arraigned at the Barrow Courthouse Thursday afternoon.