Man charged in alleged knife attack

WASILLA -- A 40-year-old Wasilla man was arrested for allegedly cutting a woman with the blade of his Leatherman knife last week.

Alaska State Troopers took Abraham A. Weideman into custody Jan. 27 at his home on Greensward Drive. Weideman was charged with third-degree assault and lodged at Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility without bail, troopers said. He also had an outstanding warrant, according to troopers.

Troopers responded to the house shortly before 10 p.m. on Jan. 27 after a report of an assault. Charging documents indicated that Weideman and the 42-year-old woman had been drinking, then started arguing and she went into a bedroom to lie down.

Weideman told troopers that he sat down on the edge of the bed, then the woman struck him twice in the face and punched him in the groin, according to an affidavit from trooper Jeff Duhrsen.

They began to wrestle, the affidavit said, and "Weideman reported that he pulled his Leatherman knife from its pouch and opened the blade. He stated that the next thing he remembered was putting the Leatherman back into its pouch. Weideman said he did not know that he had cut [the woman] with the knife."

The alleged victim told troopers that Weideman attacked her with the knife in the living room and the attack continued into the bedroom, charging documents said. The woman "repeatedly stated that Weideman had stabbed her," documents said.

Trooper Duhrsen wrote in his affidavit that he saw blood on the woman's face and hand.

"The wound on her face appeared to be a small puncture wound on her right cheek," the affidavit said. "The wounds on her hand appeared to be a pair of small lacerations near her knuckles."

The woman was taken to Valley Hospital for treatment, troopers said.

The charge is a class C felony punishable by up to five years in prison.