A Kane man is in McKean County Jail for allegedly cutting his girlfriend’s wrist with a circular saw late Monday night.
Police said Josh Joseph Bodistow, 35, of 136 School St., was “highly intoxicated” with several drugs — benzodiazepines, a pain medication used for horses, morphine and possibly methamphetamines — and believed intruders were in his home trying to attack his girlfriend. While fighting off the imaginary intruders with a circular saw, Bodistow cut his girlfriend’s wrist, according to court records.
A neighbor told police that between 10 and 11 p.m., Bodistow and his girlfriend frantically knocked at his door for help. He said Bodistow was still holding the electric-powered circular saw in his hand while at the door. The neighbor said he’d had issues with the two in the past, and didn’t answer the door, instead calling 9-1-1, court records allege.
When police interviewed the victim at UPMC Kane, she said she had been sleeping when she awoke to someone pulling her right arm hard, and then felt a “violent cut” on her left wrist. She said she screamed and ran with Bodistow to the neighbor’s house for help. She told police she didn’t see anyone else in the residence, according to court records.
Bodistow is charged with aggravated assault, a second-degree felony; simple assault and recklessly endangering another person, second-degree misdemeanors; disorderly conduct, a third-degree misdemeanor; and harassment, a summary offense.
He was arraigned before on-call District Judge Rich Luther and remanded to jail in lieu of $50,000 bail. He is scheduled to appear in Central Court Oct. 3.
