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By Ed Lewis

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Emergency responders at the scene of a stabbing at Main and Williams streets, Edwardsville, Monday night. Times Leader photo
https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/web1_Brianna-Dixon-crime-scene-7-6-15.jpg.optimal.jpgEmergency responders at the scene of a stabbing at Main and Williams streets, Edwardsville, Monday night. Times Leader photo

EDWARDSVILLE — A jealous Hanover Township teen was arraigned Tuesday on charges she stabbed another woman during a fight about dating the same man.

Police charged Brianna Dixon, 18, of 410 Hanover Village apartments, on two counts each of aggravated assault, simple assault and harassment, and one count each of terroristic threats, reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct. She was arraigned by District Judge Martin Kane in Wilkes-Barre and jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility for lack of $250,000 bail.

Police allege Dixon stabbed Qualuani Anthony, 23, multiple times in the area of Main and Williams streets at about 9 p.m. Monday.

Anthony was transported to Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Plains Township, police said.

Dixon was arrested by Wilkes-Barre police when she was spotted in vehicle in the area of East Northampton Street and South Wilkes-Barre Boulevard late Monday night.

According to the criminal complaint:

Anthony and her friend were leaving the Turkey Hill store on Main Street, Kingston, when she was approached by Dixon, who had exited a vehicle occupied by others.

Dixon yelled profanities at Anthony, who told Dixon to leave her alone, the complaint says.

Dixon continued to yell at Anthony about a Facebook message, and claimed she had given her boyfriend, Ibrahim Sharif, a sexual transmitted disease, according to the complaint.

Anthony told Dixon, “I don’t have time for this; I’m on probation and I do not want to fight you.”

Anthony and her friend walked away from Dixon.

Dixon got back into the vehicle and followed Anthony to Main and Williams streets where she exited the car.

Police allege in the complaint Dixon physically assaulted Anthony and told another person in the vehicle, “gimme that,” stabbing Anthony multiple times.

Dixon told Anthony she was going to kill her as she allegedly stabbed her, the complaint says.

Anthony ran into a residence on Williams Street where she collapsed in a living room.

Anthony told police during an interview at the hospital that she knows Dixon because she dated her ex-boyfriend.

Court records say Anthony was sentenced on June 4 to one-year probation on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest in connection to a domestic dispute at a residence on Sambourne Street, Wilkes-Barre, on Sept. 20, 2012. City police alleged Anthony yelled profanities at two officers, jumped on a cruiser and struggled when she was handcuffed, according to court records.

Anthony was initially sentenced to the county’s Accelerated Rehabilitation Disposition Program, a special probationary program for first-time non-violent offenders on June 3, 2013. Prosecutors had Anthony’s ARD revoked due to failing to pay $50 a month for supervision fees, failed to attend anger management counseling and perform 15 hours of community service, according to court records.

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