BUTLER TWP — A Lyndora man faces felony assault charges after a New Year’s Day argument with his girlfriend allegedly turned bloody.

Timothy Pletcher, 38, is accused of cutting Betty McGinnis’ forearm with a knife.

According to court records, police were called to Pletcher’s 401 Division St. home because the pair had been fighting most of the night.

When police arrived, Pletcher had left but there was “a set of kitchen knives, blood and water all over the kitchen floor,” according to court records.

There also were five crack pipes, a bag of pink pills and drug paraphernalia.

McGinnis had a “bloody face and an approximately one-inch laceration that appeared to be from a knife to the top portion of her left forearm,” according to court records.

McGinnis allegedly acknowledged smoking about $100 worth of crack cocaine with Pletcher and arguing with him.

Although Pletcher’s mother, who also was in the house, told police that McGinnis told her she’d cut herself, McGinnis said it was Pletcher who cut her and hit her in the face.

However, while being treated at Butler Memorial Hospital for the wound, McGinnis told investigators that “nothing really happened” and that she did not want Pletcher charged “because I love him.”

Pletcher is charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, possession of drug paraphernalia and harassment. He was arrested Monday and arraigned by District Judge Kevin O’Donnell.

He was placed in the Butler County Prison unable to post $7,500 bail.