Stabbing incident Smithfield Plains
Where: Crittenden Road, Smithfield Plains, the street the release names · See the street on the map
The release
A man was arrested after allegedly stabbing another man at Smithfield Plains overnight.
About 1am on Tuesday 6 October, police and paramedics responded to reports a man had been stabbed at a home on Crittenden Road.
A 50-year-old man was found with a laceration to his arm and was treated at the scene. His injuries are not considered life threatening.
Northern District police arrested a 19-year-old man and charged him with assault causing harm. He was refused bail and will appear in the Elizabeth Magistrates Court today.
The incident is not random as the men are known to each other.
— SA PoliceCrime in the Playford council area
Playford is a council area in South Australia with about 115,790 residents. It has a Crime Score 74 out of 100 (high), 45th of 362 councils nationally.
The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by assault (85th percentile), break-ins (83rd percentile), homicide (81st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 74.
- Violent
- 2,203 per 100k
- Property
- 7,508 per 100k
- Break-ins
- 973 per 100k
- Theft
- 3,290 per 100k
See the full Playford crime profile
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