By Christopher Williams,Staff Writer

LEWISTON – A local man was charged with attempted murder for slashing the hands and arms of his ex-girlfriend with a butcher’s knife, police said.

Derek Kay, 43, of 135 Bartlett St. was held at Androscoggin County Jail on Friday on $5,000 cash bail, $50,000 surety.

Police also charged him with two counts of domestic violence assault, criminal threatening and violation of bail.

Kay confronted his former girlfriend on the sidewalk Wednesday night outside 209 Ash St., police said. She had gotten out of a car to speak to him.

Kay slashed both of her hands and one of her arms several times with a butcher’s knife, said Patrol Officer Hart Daley, domestic violence investigator. When her nephew stepped in to defend her, Kay cut one of the 17-year-old youth’s hands, Daley said.

Both the woman, 35, and her nephew were taken to Central Maine Medical Center where they were treated for their wounds and released, Daley said. Police withheld the names of both victims.

Police had responded to a 911 call. Daley said they recovered two butcher’s knives that were involved in the attack.

Kay was on bail on a charge of drug trafficking when he was arrested. He also was on probation stemming from a drug trafficking charge in Boston and was barred from leaving Massachusetts as a condition of his probation, Daley said. Kay was arrested at noon Thursday on Knox Street.

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