State police on Thursday arrested a Parks Township man who they said slashed another man’s face with a knife during an altercation.

David George Ash, 55, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault, two counts of simple assault and harassment in connection with the Sept. 16 incident. He was being held in Armstrong County Jail in East Franklin on $25,000 bond.

A criminal complaint filed in the case said the alleged victim went to Ash’s home in the 1100 block of Jefferson Street because his girlfriend was there. The man told police he was met by three men, including Ash, who had a knife in each hand, and another man who was wielding a baseball bat, the complaint said.

The alleged victim told police he responded by pulling “a machete from his backpack in self-defense.”

Investigators said the alleged victim told the three men to “put their weapons down and settle it like men,” and he set his machete down.

Ash put down the two knives he had been holding, but then said, “You forgot about this one,” as he pulled another knife from his pocket and punched the man with the hand that was holding the third knife, the complaint said.

The man suffered a “very long, deep cut on his lip and chin” and was taken to Allegheny Valley Hospital in Harrison for treatment, police wrote in the complaint.

Ash did not have an attorney listed in court documents. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 29 before District Judge James Andring.

Ash also is awaiting trial on drug charges in Armstrong County, according to court records. Court records also showed Ash pleaded guilty in September 2018 to armed robbery and was sentenced to one to two years in prison.

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