A friendly arm-wrestling match turned ugly at a Bel Air home Friday night and ended with two men injured and two more under arrest, town police reported yesterday.
Three co-workers sat down after completing a home improvement project in the 300 block of George St. to have a couple of beers about 7:45 p.m., police said.
One worker, Leonard John Makowski, 32, of the 600 block of Camelot Drive, Bel Air, became angered after losing an arm-wrestling match and allegedly attacked the other two, stabbing one with a broken beer bottle and biting the other man's nose, police said.
Mr. Makowski was being held yesterday on $250,000 bond at the Harford County Detention Center on charges of assault with intent to murder and related charges, police said. He was arrested about 8:45 p.m. in a woods behind Bel Air Plaza after a brief chase.
One victim, Paul E. Miller, 37, of the 100 block of S. Main St., Bel air, was treated at Franklin Square Hospital for a stab wound in the neck and released.
The other, Robert S. Roche, 44, of the 200 block of Choptank Road, Chase, refused treatment, police said.
Police also arrested Stephen Ottis Stanton, 36, of the 100 block of Archer Street in Bel Air, a friend of the victims, about 8 p.m. Friday after he arrived at the scene of the alleged assaults armed with a baseball bat and a hunting knife.
Mr. Stanton was seeking revenge against Mr. Makowski, police said.
He was charged with carrying a deadly weapon and was held on $500 bond, police said.