A 19-year-old man has been arrested after a stabbing at a graduation party near Miramichi.
RCMP responded to a disturbance early Tuesday around 2:30 a.m. on Chaplin Island Road where officers found a 16-year-old male suffering from what appeared to be a stab wound.
The youth was taken to hospital for treatment but later released.
Man arrested following a stabbing at a graduation party. A 19-year-old man from the Metepenagiag First Nation has been arrested following a stabbing at a graduation party in Chaplin Island, near Miramichi, N.B. https://t.co/hn7lWrJYAD #ChaplinIsland
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Ashton Ward of Red Bank has been charged with aggravated assault, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and two counts of failing to comply with conditions of probation.
Ward is being held in custody and returns to court Thursday for a bail hearing.
