Southampton Man Gets Time-Served For Steak-Knife Stabbing

UPPER SOUTHAMPTON, PA — An Upper Southampton man was sentenced to the time he's already served for stabbing a friend in April with a steak knife.

Jonathan Michael Soldo, 34, pleaded guilty on Monday to charges of aggravated assault and possession of an instrument of a crime. Judge C. Theodore Fritsch Jr. sentenced him to time served in the case.

Charges of attempted murder and attempted homicide were dismissed.

Upper Southampton Police were alerted on April 28 that Philadelphia Police were at Aria-Jefferson Torresdale Hospital, where a stabbing victim told them he'd been stabbed in Upper Southampton.

According to police, he said he'd been sitting in the back seat of a vehicle parked in the driveway of a home on Woodbourne Drive when he was stabbed in the chest by Soldo.

After a scuffle, which ended outside the vehicle, Soldo left the scene, police said. The victim pulled the knife from his chest and put it in the home's garage. He was then taken to the hospital by a witness who also was in the car at the time of the stabbing.

Police say that witness told them he, the victim and Soldo were sitting in his vehicle when Soldo, who was sitting in the front seat, pulled a steak knife, turned around and stabbed the victim in the chest.

Soldo was arrested later that morning, walking in the area of Nicole Drive and Tina Drive.

According to The Intelligencer, prosecutors said Monday that the victim agrees with the time-served sentence in the case, saying he knew Soldo "was not in his right mind" at the time. Soldo apologized to the court, his family and the victim's family, the paper reported.