Woman arrested in Michigan City stabbing incident

La Porte County Sheriff\'s Office

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. – A woman has been arrested in connection with a stabbing that left a man injured early Wednesday morning.

Deputies responded to Franciscan Health Michigan City Campus at approximately 4:48 a.m. on March 6 after a male victim arrived with a stab wound to his upper torso.

The 35-year-old man told authorities he was attacked during a disturbance with 30-year-old Heather D. Kist inside a room at the Dunes Inn on North Frontage Road.

Detectives from the La Porte County Sheriff’s Office launched an investigation, and the Fugitive Apprehension Street Team (FAST) located Kist at a hotel in Knox, Indiana, on March 7. She was taken into custody without incident.

Kist faces a charge of aggravated battery, a Level 3 felony, and is being held at the La Porte County Jail on a $25,000 cash-only bond.

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