LIVERMORE FALLS – A man accused of attempting to kill an ex-girlfriend’s boyfriend in Rumford last May was arrested here Sunday, served two days in jail for violating bail conditions and was released this week.

Police officer Bruce Benson arrested Dwight Knox, 38, of Jay, formerly of Rumford, on a charge of violating bail conditions at 1:40 a.m. Sunday.

Police received a report of two men fighting in a second-floor apartment at 115 Main St., police Chief Ernest Steward Jr. said Wednesday.

Jay police were called for assistance because the Livermore Falls officer was on the other side of town.

Jay officer Steve Wilkinson separated Knox and Billy Moore, 30, of Livermore Falls, Steward said. Moore declined to press charges, he said.

The men had been drinking, the chief said, which is a violation of Knox’s bail conditions set on the Oxford County charge.

Knox appeared in an Androscoggin County court this week and was released Tuesday on the Livermore Falls charge with credit for time served.

Knox pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, elevated aggravated assault, burglary, violation of a protection order, and violation of conditions of release in July in Oxford County Superior Court in Paris.

He is accused of breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s home and stabbing her boyfriend in the neck with a knife last May. The attempted murder charge states that Knox intended to kill her boyfriend.

Knox has criminal convictions in Maine, including five for assault dating back to 1997, and criminal threatening.

Records in Florida show he spent time in the Polk County Jail for assaulting law enforcement officers and for being a felon in possession of a firearm. There are other convictions for indecent exposure, burglary and shoplifting. Florida records also show Knox was charged with homicide and attempted homicide in 1990 but was not convicted.

Regional editor Scott Thistle contributed to this report.