Scott Bolte

A Butler man was paroled Thursday on time served after being charged with stabbing another person five times during a fight in September.

Scott M. Bolte, 46, was sentenced by Butler County Judge William Shaffer to 9 to 18 months in Butler County Prison, and will be immediately paroled when a parole plan is in place. That parole will be followed by three years of probation. He was also ordered to pay court costs and have no contact with the victim.

Bolte pleaded guilty May 1 to a felony count of aggravated assault.

Butler police filed the charges after an incident Sept. 11 in the 200 block of West Diamond Street, where police said Bolte injured Alexander Shelatree, 25, by stabbing him five times with a knife.

When officers arrived, Bolte was found on the street with a folding knife closed in his hand and admitted that he stabbed someone inside the home, according to court documents.

Shelatree was found laying on the living room floor, writhing and screaming in pain, with his shirt bloody on the left side, police said. He was treated at Butler Memorial Hospital for non-life threatening wounds to his arm, chest and leg.

Two witnesses who were in the house at the time reported that Bolte and Shelatree were in an argument that became physical, when Bolte pulled a knife and stabbed Shelatree several times.