UPDATED: Man Accused Of Stabbing, Beating & Choking Woman


Bao Thien Le
Credit: Falls Township police

UPDATED: 11:01 a.m., Friday: 

District Judge Jan Vislosky, who will oversee the preliminary hearing, upped bail on Friday morning from 10 percent of $150,000 to 10 percent of $9 million.

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Original Story: 

A Falls Township man has been accused of stabbing, beating, and choking a woman inside a Fairless Hills home.

Falls Township officers were called to the home in the 200 block of South Olds Boulevard shortly before 3:30 p.m. Thursday for a report of a man choking a woman. They arrived to find 24-year-old Bao Thien Le choking a 22-year-old woman in the home.

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Police Lt. Nelson Whitney said officers physically had to remove Le from the woman during the attack.

The woman suffered several non-life-threatening stab wounds to her head and torso, police said.

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The woman appears to have been stabbed with a screwdriver, police said.

The county detective’s crime scene unit outside the home.
Credit: Submitted

Falls Township police and Bucks County Detectives continued to investigate the assault as of Friday. A large mobile crime scene truck was parked outside the home as of Thursday evening.

Le was charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault, possession of an instrument of crime, strangulation, and recklessly endangering another person. He was arraigned by on-call District Judge Maggie Snow early Friday morning and held on 10 percent of $150,000 bail.

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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.



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