North Bay ‘Box Cutter’ Stabbing Probed: Cops

SONOMA COUNTY, CA — A North Bay man who used a box cutter in the stabbing attack of his victim and then assaulted officers during a failed getaway was arrested Wednesday, police said.

Stephen Robert Fink was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, assaulting a police officer, assaulting a police K-9, attempted carjacking and mayhem (all felonies), the Santa Rosa Police Department said in a news release.

The stabbing victim, 56-year-old homeless man, was hospitalized and was in serious condition with non-life threatening injuries as of Wednesday afternoon, police said.

A fight between two men outside the Motel 6 at 2750 Cleveland Ave. precipitated the attack, police said.

The altercation was reported about at about 4:15 p.m., police said.

Responding officers found the suspect with blood on his face and head. But when they tried to take him into custody, he ran from the motel parking lot onto Cleveland Avenue, according to a police news release.

Fink then tried to carjack a Honda Civic headed northbound on Cleveland Avenue, police said.

Officers released a police dog, which bit the suspect on the leg -- at the same time that the driver of the car accelerated, police said. Fink was dragged about 200 feet before letting go.

When officers then tried to subdue Fink, he refused and punched, kicked, spat on them and tried to bite them, according to police.

The victim and suspect didn't know each other, and neither of them were staying at the motel, according to police.

— Bay City News contributed to this report