Dayton Man Arrested in Stabbing

DAYTON - A Dayton man was arrested Saturday evening after another man was stabbed during a fight behind a Main Street bar here. Anthony J. Nieto Sr., 55, has been charged with first degree assault.

According to a Sheriff's Office report, deputies were called to the alley behind Woody's Bar and Grill, at 214 E. Main Street, after reports of a group of people fighting. After deputies separated the group, witnesses reported that one man had been stabbed in the neck.

Tyler Beckner, of Dayton, was taken to Dayton General Hospital with an approximately one-inch wound in his neck near his left ear. Deputies interviewed Beckner and he identified Nieto Sr. as his assailant.

Deputies also received a report from a neighbor that a knife had been found in the back of a pickup half a block away from the fight scene. The knife was collected for evidence.

When deputies interviewed Nieto Sr., he said the knife belonged to him, but he did not admit to stabbing Beckner. He is being held in the Columbia County Jail on $250,000 bond, pending trial.