PARIS – A 26-year-old Rumford man accused of stabbing another Rumford man in September, was indicted this week by an Oxford County grand jury.

Currently in Oxford County Jail in Paris, Alvah Burton Pike IV of 26 Spruce St. was charged with attempted murder, elevated aggravated assault and aggravated assault in the stabbing of 28-year-old Joshua Lee Mayo of Oxford Avenue. An arraignment date had yet to be set, according to an Oxford County Superior Court official contacted Friday afternoon in Paris.

Rumford police first arrested Pike on Sept. 24 at a North Street apartment in Dixfield, where they say Pike fled after dragging Mayo down a flight of stairs at Mayo’s apartment and stabbing him multiple times with a switchblade knife, shouting that he would kill him, according to an affidavit by Rumford police Sgt. James J. Bernard.

Pike was convicted of illegal possession of a scheduled drug in 1999, assault in 2000 and 2004, operating under the influence in 2001 and March of this year, and aggravated assault in 2006.

At his arraignment on Sept. 25 in the Paris court on initial charges of attempted murder, elevated aggravated assault, aggravated assault and violation of conditions of release, Assistant District Attorney Joe O’Connor said Pike had also served one year in prison for aggravated assault, because he sicced a pit bull on a person.