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Officers have arrested a Croydon man after they say he stabbed another man and then fled on foot.
Arthur Mackenzie III, 40, of Bristol Township’s Croydon section, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, possessing an instrument of crime, disorderly conduct, possession, and harassment.
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On Saturday, April 1 shortly before 8 p.m., Bristol Township police responded to the 2200 block of Buchanan Avenue in Croydon for the report of a man who had his arm cut with a knife.
A probable cause affidavit from the incident states that the man told police that Mackenzie had stabbed him after a verbal and then physical argument and then fled on foot.
The man told police that Mackenzie had become disorderly in front of the address on Buchanan Avenue by engaging in a verbal argument. The argument turned physical when Mackenzie swung at the man with a black leather wallet attached to a chain. When the chain broke, Mackenzie allegedly produced a knife where he lunged at the man and cut his arm.
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Police noted in court documents that the man had an approximate six-inch laceration near his bicep.
Mackenzie was located a short time later near the home and found with a black folding knife, a black wallet with a broken chain and a crystallized substance suspected to be methamphetamine.
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Mackenzie was sent to the Bucks County Correctional Facility on 10 percent of $50,000 bail.
Editor’s Note: All individuals arrested or charged with a crime are presumed innocent until proven guilty. The story was compiled using information from police and public court documents.
