Woman arrested for stabbing family member in Spring Valley

A stabbing sent a woman to jail and a man to the hospital in Spring Valley.

Police and paramedics went to a home on West Second Place Monday night just before 9 o’clock. Thirty-six-year-old Heather Sobin was arrested in her home for aggravated battery. She’s accused of stabbing a 36-year-old man in his back with a kitchen knife.

The victim who is a relative of Sobin was taken to St. Margaret’s Hospital for a wound to his lower back. Sobin was taken to the Bureau County Jail.