An Arkansas truck driver is in custody as the result of a stabbing incident on Interstate 80 on December 19th.
Sweetwater County Sheriff Rich Haskell said Larry W. Sevinsky, 42, of Harrison, Arkansas, has been charged with Aggravated Assault and Battery.
According to Haskell, deputies were dispatched to the area of mile marker 125 on Interstate 80, east of Rock Springs, at about 1:20 PM on the 19th in response to a report of a stabbing.
When they arrived, the county officers encountered a group of men near five semi tractor-trailer rigs parked along the interstate. One of the men, 45-year-old Russell Leroy Long, was bleeding from a stab wound to his left side. He pointed out the man he said had stabbed him, subsequently identified as Sevinsky, and was transported by ambulance to Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County in Rock Springs.
Witnesses at the scene told deputies that Long and two other drivers were convoying three trucks to Texas at the time of the incident. They were traveling eastbound in the left-hand lane between Rock Springs and exit 122, they said, when Sevinsky’s rig, in the right-hand lane, swerved in front of the convoy’s lead truck and cut him off. An argument over CB radios in the rigs ensued.
Haskell said Sevinsky and Long both apparently pulled their rigs over and got out on foot. Not long afterward, according to witnesses, Long was on the radio saying that he’d been stabbed. His assailant, he said, had left the scene in his (the assailant’s) truck.
At Memorial Hospital, Long was treated for his wound, which was not considered life-threatening.
Sevinsky was arrested and transported to the Sweetwater County Detention Center without incident. He appeared in Circuit Court in Rock Springs on December 20th, where Judge Dan Forgey set his bond at $25,000, cash or surety. Sevinsky could face up to 10 years and fines if convicted.
Sweetwater County Sheriff Rich Haskell said Larry W. Sevinsky, 42, of Harrison, Arkansas, has been charged with Aggravated Assault and Battery.
According to Haskell, deputies were dispatched to the area of mile marker 125 on Interstate 80, east of Rock Springs, at about 1:20 PM on the 19th in response to a report of a stabbing.
When they arrived, the county officers encountered a group of men near five semi tractor-trailer rigs parked along the interstate. One of the men, 45-year-old Russell Leroy Long, was bleeding from a stab wound to his left side. He pointed out the man he said had stabbed him, subsequently identified as Sevinsky, and was transported by ambulance to Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County in Rock Springs.
Witnesses at the scene told deputies that Long and two other drivers were convoying three trucks to Texas at the time of the incident. They were traveling eastbound in the left-hand lane between Rock Springs and exit 122, they said, when Sevinsky’s rig, in the right-hand lane, swerved in front of the convoy’s lead truck and cut him off. An argument over CB radios in the rigs ensued.
Haskell said Sevinsky and Long both apparently pulled their rigs over and got out on foot. Not long afterward, according to witnesses, Long was on the radio saying that he’d been stabbed. His assailant, he said, had left the scene in his (the assailant’s) truck.
At Memorial Hospital, Long was treated for his wound, which was not considered life-threatening.
Sevinsky was arrested and transported to the Sweetwater County Detention Center without incident. He appeared in Circuit Court in Rock Springs on December 20th, where Judge Dan Forgey set his bond at $25,000, cash or surety. Sevinsky could face up to 10 years and fines if convicted.
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