Man sentenced to prison for stabbing at Bowling Green bar

2/14/2006

BOWLING GREEN A local man who stabbed a patron of Howard s Club H on North Main Street last spring was sentenced yesterday to four years in prison.

Paul Maynard, 31, pleaded guilty to two counts of felonious assault in November.

Wood County Common Pleas Judge Reeve Kelsey sentenced him to four years, but said he could apply for judicial release if he has no problems in prison. He would be eligible for early release after six months.

Maynard stabbed Charles J. Brown, 33, of Bowling Green, who told police he d seen bar patrons breaking bottles on the pool table. He told them they should leave, a fight broke out, and Mr. Brown was stabbed.