Police say Connellsville woman attacked cheating boyfriend's mistress with knife

A Fayette County woman who allegedly caught her boyfriend cheating is charged with breaking into the man’s East Huntingdon home and cutting the other woman with a knife, state police said.

Lindsey J. Stout, 32, of Connellsville, is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, simple assault and harassment in connection with the incident early Thursday morning.

The woman was treated at Excela Health Frick hospital in Mt. Pleasant, where she received five stitches to close the wound on her hand, police said.

Trooper Christopher Mazujian said Stout drove to the boyfriend’s Adam Bowser Road residence to retrieve some belongings and saw the man inside with another woman.

“(Stout) gained access to the residence through a window,” Mazujian said in court documents.

Stout admitting to troopers grabbing a kitchen knife before confronting her boyfriend and the woman, Mazujian reported. Police said Stout said she did remember “getting into an altercation with (the woman).”

“(Stout) seemed to be unsure whether she actually cut anyone but placed the knife on a bedroom dresser,” Mazujian wrote in court documents.

Troopers recovered the blood-stained knife from the kitchen sink. Mazujian said blood stains also were observed on the floor of the bedroom where the altercation took place.

Neither Stout nor the man were injured, according to police reports.

Stout has no prior criminal record in Pennsylvania, according on court dockets. She was released on unsecured bond pending a preliminary hearing Feb. 24.