Two people from Springdale were charged with a felony after each of them told police the other person stabbed them with a fork.

Gary Joseph Turner, 64, and Theresa Marie Smiesko, 50, both of the 600 block of Lincoln Avenue, were charged with a felony count of aggravated assault in connection with the July 9 incident.

They were released from custody after posting a nonmonetary bond and face preliminary hearings before District Judge David Sosovicka on July 25.

Police say an officer met with Smiesko at the police station, where she told him that Turner choked her and stabbed her with a fork because she refused to cook dinner for his friends, according to a criminal complaint.

The woman was bleeding from the left arm, police said.

Smiesko told police she was able to wrestle the fork away from Turner during the argument and “stabbed him back with it.”

Police went to the home and arrested Turner, who told them that he and Smiesko were arguing and she stabbed him with a fork, the complaint said.

Turner, who had a wound on his arm that looked like it was made with a fork, told police he took the fork from Smiesko and stabbed her with it, the complaint said.

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