By BDN staff

A vagrant woman threatened to gut a Burlington street outreach worker, Burlington Police say.

On October 29, at about 7:35 PM an employee of the Howard Street Outreach Team witnessed two females engaged in a physical fight in City Hall Park. During this fight, one of the involved women produced a small folding knife and threatened to “gut” the other before leaving the park.

The Street Outreach employee attempted to follow the armed female suspect as police were responding. The female, identified as Faith Stone, noticed that the Street Outreach employee was following her at which time Stone threaten to “gut” the Street Outreach employee and ran toward him with her hands in her pockets. The Street Outreach worker was able to push Stone away at which time she continued to leave the area on foot.

Responding officers located Stone about one block away. Stone was arrested and found to be in possession of a folding knife which had a four inch blade. While in police custody, Stone bit a police officer’s arm causing pain and bruising.

Stone was ordered held on bail and lodged with the Department of Corrections and was arraigned on the charges of Aggravated Assault and Assault of a Police Officer on October 30.