The Clarinda Police Department reports an arrest has been made in connection with a stabbing incident that took place Friday afternoon. 41-year old Ricky Dean Peterson, of Clarinda, turned himself in to Clarinda Police Officers late Friday night at around 18th and Lincoln, and was arrested for felony willful injury and use of a dangerous weapon in the commission of a felony in connection with the stabbing. Peterson was being held in the Page County Jail on $12,000 bail.

Officers in Clarinda had responded at around 4:15-p.m. Friday to the stabbing incident at an apartment complex located at 901 W. Tarkio Street.  24-year old Marshall Mahmud Graham, of Clarinda suffered stab wounds to his abdomen and left arm, during the incident. Graham was transported to the Clarinda Regional Health Center and was later air lifted to the University of Nebraska Medical Center for treatment of injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening. Authorities say the stabbing was an isolated incident and at no time was there any reason to believe the public was in danger.

The Clarinda Police Department was assisted in its investigation, by the Page County Sheriff’s Department, Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department and the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation.