Redstone Township Police: Man held knife to child’s throat
A Wilkes Barre man allegedly held a knife to the throat of a 10-year-old girl at a Redstone Township home after the girl’s mother told him to leave her house.
Joshua Lee Stevens, 28, is charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person.
Redstone Township Police were called to 493 Filbert Orient Road at about 6:15 p.m. Monday. Angel Bass, the girl’s mother, told police she had given Stevens permission to stay at her house for a few days and told him to leave earlier that day. Bass went grocery shopping and left the girl with her older brother, a teenager, police said.
Stevens allegedly tried to break in through a window and then entered through the front door. The teen told Stevens to leave, and the man allegedly grabbed a large knife from the kitchen and held it to the girl’s wrist. When she tried to get away, he allegedly held the knife to her throat and said he was going to kill her. The girl’s brother chased Stevens from the house around the time Bass came home. She called 911 and told police Stevens may have fled to Pershing Court in Uniontown.
He was arrested Tuesday and arraigned that night before Fayette County Magisterial District Judge Richard Kasunic II, who set bail at $50,000. Stevens was unable to post bail and remains in Fayette County Prison.