Arkansas man accused of swinging knife, found lying in blood

Dominic Anthony Swingle, 24, of Mountain Home.
Dominic Anthony Swingle, 24, of Mountain Home.

An Arkansas man accused of aggravated assault was found unconscious in a kitchen “with blood all around him” Thursday night, the Baxter County sheriff’s office said.

The sheriff’s office said in a news release that 24-year-old Dominic Anthony Swingle of Mountain Home had arrived intoxicated at a house in the 100 block of County Road 989.

He was acting aggressively, and he drew a knife, swinging it at two people, the sheriff’s office said. Swingle then left the house, as did the other people who were there.

When the people who witnessed Swingle’s alleged knife-swinging returned to the house, they found him “passed out in the kitchen with blood all around him,” the release said. A sheriff’s deputy arrived at the house around 8:50 p.m.

Swingle had a large cut on his right hand and was taken to the Baxter Regional Medical Center. He told authorities he sustained the wound when he stabbed a tree.

Charged with aggravated assault, he was booked into the Baxter County jail a little before 11 p.m. and is being held there in lieu of $10,000 bond.

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