Wife arrested after husband stabbed

A Whitefish woman is in jail and her husband hospitalized after a stabbing Monday evening in Whitefish.

Whitefish Police Chief Bill Dial says police responded to a home on the 1100 block of O’Brien Avenue at about 6 p.m. where they found Chad Newton, 37, on the kitchen floor with a stab wound to his chest.

Newton was taken to Kalispell Regional Medical Center for emergency surgery and was in the hospital’s intensive care unit on Tuesday.

Newton’s wife, Ann-Mari Newton, 39, was arrested and is being held at the Flathead County Detention Center on a preliminary charge of aggravated assault.

Police say the couple was involved in a verbal disagreement when Ann-Mari allegedly stabbed her husband in the left side of the chest.

The couple have two young children who were in the residence at the time. They were not injured and have been placed in the custody of a family friend.

The police investigation is ongoing.