A Harlingen mother is behind bars after she allegedly lunged at her common law husband and their baby with a kitchen knife.
Harlingen police arrested 25-year-old Amanda Suetkamp on aggravated assault and child endangerment charges early Saturday afternoon.
Investigators told Action 4 News that it all started with a panic alarm call to a home off the 3600 block of Los Alamos Circle on the city’s southside around 1 p.m. Saturday.
Suetkamp’s common law husband told officers that they had gotten into an argument and that she grabbed a kitchen knife and lunged at him.
The man told officer he was holding the couple’s 7-month-old son in his arms at the time of the attack and had to use a chair as a shield.
Neither the man not the baby was injured during the incident but officers arrested Suetkamp.
Suetkamp appeared before a Harlingen municipal judge on Monday where she was issued $500,000 dollars in bonds.
She remained in custody at the Harlingen City Jail as of Monday morning.
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