A Jamestown man has been held for court on all charges after a stabbing incident on Aug. 23 in Farmington Township.

Dakota James Fellion, 21, is facing charges of aggravated assault, a first-degree felony; simple assault, a second-degree misdemeanor; harassment, a summary charge; and aggravated assault, a second-degree felony that was added during the preliminary hearing.

Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Carl Lewis was the only person to testify during the preliminary hearing Wednesday morning before District Judge Glenn Carlson.

Lewis said he received a call from dispatch after 2 a.m. on the day of the incident from a charge nurse at WCA Hospital in Jamestown. Response was delayed, Lewis testified, because a suspect in another situation was in custody. Once Lewis was able, he said he called WCA and was told the victim had been released, leading Lewis to request contact information.

Lewis testified that he spoke to the victim, Jacob C. Bliss, and was told that Bliss was at a drinking party at Mud Run Road and Cemetery Road in Lander, Pennsylvania, when he noticed Fellion in a verbal argument with another person. Bliss tried to break up the fight, Lewis testified, and after Fellion turned on him, Bliss felt like he “was being punched in the back.”

“Someone else said there was blood coming out of his shirt,” Lewis testified.

Lewis said he interviewed another witness from the party who confirmed the story, as well as the WCA charge nurse who said Bliss had received three stab wounds. He said Bliss came to the barracks to allow Lewis to photograph his back, where Lewis found six stab wounds in total.

Lewis testified that Bliss knew Fellion and that Fellion had sent Bliss a message apologizing.

“‘Sorry for what I did to you. I didn’t know it was you,'” Lewis said, adding that while he didn’t have the message in front of him, that was the rough estimate of the message.

Fellion’s attorney, Alan Conn, asked Lewis about the knife. Lewis testified that it was a standard pocket knife.

Assistant District Attorney Caleb Gnage asked about the length of the wounds themselves, to which Lewis testified that they were “probably an inch, inch and a half, maybe two.”

Conn asked if Lewis had interviewed Fellion. Lewis said Fellion was being held in Chautauqua County on other charges.

Conn then requested that the first count of aggravated assault be lessened as the wounds were “maybe an inch or two,” Bliss was released the same day and there was no “substantial pain.”

Gnage disagreed.

“Mr. Fellion had a pocket knife and stabbed Mr. Bliss in the back,” Gnage argued, adding that it was “without question” an attempt at serious bodily injury.

Then Gnage addressed the message sent to Bliss.

“That is even more terrible because it’s reckless to just pull a pocket knife and stab someone,” Gnage said.

He requested that another charge of aggravated assault be added to include the use of a deadly weapon, as well as the fact that Bliss was forced to go to the hospital and received 11 stitches on six stab wounds.

Carlson held Fellion on all charges with $50,000 monetary bail.

Gnage asked that Fellion be given a no contact order and his bail be increased while Conn requested bail reduction.

Carlson denied Conn’s request and said if there was not already a no contact order in place he would “certainly put that into play.” He also said that he believed $50,000 bail was sufficient. Fellion remains incarcerated in Warren County Jail.