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PROVO — Police arrested a woman who allegedly stabbed and bit her husband Wednesday because she was mad.
Police responded to an apartment building near 400 West and 200 North in Provo after receiving a call from a woman who said she saw a man bleeding, according to the probable cause statement. When police initially made contact with 20-year-old Chonchita L. Peralta, she told them she had been in a fight with her husband of eight months, but that “nothing physical happened,” investigators wrote.
However, the husband then returned home with his right pant leg covered in blood, according to the statement. It states that paramedics responded to treat the stab wound, which appeared to be about 2 inches deep and ½-inch wide.
"(The husband) said his wife, arrestee Peralta, stabbed him in the knee with a small black knife,” the statement reads. "(He) said his wife bit him on the right side of his neck and left shoulder. There were marks that appeared to be bite marks. He said he pushed his wife away so she could not bite him and she came at him again with the knife and stabbed him in the leg.”
The woman’s 1-year-old daughter was there at the time of the assault, according to the probable cause statement. Investigators wrote that the child was sitting on the couch and crying.
Peralta was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault resulting in serious bodily injury and domestic violence in the presence of a child and booked into the Utah County Jail.
