Stabbing results in arrest

Bloomington police arrested Bloomington resident Randy D. Butcher Saturday evening on preliminary charges of aggravated battery and possession of a controlled substance after he allegedly stabbed a man in the stomach.\nBloomington Police Department officers met with a 24-year-old man in the Bloomington Hospital emergency room Saturday afternoon who was being treated for stab wounds, said BPD Detective Sgt. David Drake, reading from the police report. The man reported that he had visited a residence on South Rockport Road earlier that day, where he got into an argument with a woman in the apartment.\nDrake said he reported that Butcher and another man then assaulted him, and Butcher pulled out a knife and stabbed him in the stomach. In the report, he said he was able to retreat to his car and drive to his mother's house, who took him to the emergency room.\nAccording to the report, the man had two black eyes, a chipped front tooth, a large cut to the back of his head and a two-inch deep stab wound to his abdomen. Drake said the victim's condition was not life-threatening.\nAccording to the report, officers visited the address the man described, and arrested Jeremy Dalton and Julie Dugger, who both had outstanding warrants. \nOfficers tracked down Butcher later that evening, who had a knife that appeared to have blood on it in his pocket, Drake said. He said his pocket also contained four Lortab pills, which require a prescription. Police arrested Butcher in connection with the stabbing and for possessing the drugs.