An Odessa man was arrested early Wednesday morning after another man accused him of stabbing him in the leg.
According to an Odessa Police Department report, officers went to a home in the 3500 block of Boulder Avenue around 11:15 p.m. Tuesday after receiving a call from a man who said he’d been stabbed. When officers went to the home, no one answered.
At 12:26 a.m. Wednesday, police were sent back to the house for an unknown problem and again no one answered the door, the report stated. Officers went into the backyard and detained Marcus Olgin, 54, as he came outside and they pulled another man out the door when he refused to step out on his own.
According to the report, officers saw a large amount of blood on the second man’s leg and he was taken to the hospital by medics and an officer where he said Olgin had stabbed him.
Olgin claimed the other man hurt his leg when he broke a gate to the backyard, but a witness told police the other man told him Olgin had stabbed him and the gate had been broken for a few days, the report stated.
The witness also said he’d seen Olgin being beaten by the other man, the report stated.
Officers found a small knife in the living room where the stabbing was said to have occurred and it had blood on it, the report stated. The alleged victim also later identified the knife as the one he’d been stabbed with.
Olgin was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He was booked into the Ector County jail with a $25,000 surety bond.
