SHARON Man faces charges in assault, stabbing

He's being held in Crawford County on $100,000 bond.
By HAROLD GWIN
VINDICATOR SHARON BUREAU
SHARON, Pa. -- A Farrell man who pleaded guilty to stabbing his pregnant girlfriend here nine years ago was being held in Crawford County Jail today on charges that he stabbed a Meadville woman.
James R. Campbell, 33, of Judy Lynn Drive, and formerly of Connelly Boulevard, Sharon, was picked up by Sharon police around 3:30 a.m. Thursday in the entryway of an apartment building in the 300 block of Sterling Avenue.
Police said they were called to investigate a disturbance and found Campbell and a 37-year-old Meadville woman who appeared to have been severely beaten. They found out she also had a stab wound of the abdomen.
Sharon police arrested Campbell on a public drunkenness charge and called Meadville police.
Meadville Police Chief David Acker said the stabbing victim told authorities that Campbell, whom she knew, had assaulted and stabbed her in her Meadville apartment and then forced her to ride with him to Sharon.
Police refused to identify the woman and said she was in stable condition today in a Mercer County hospital.
Campbell was returned to Meadville and arraigned before District Justice William Chisholm on charges of attempted homicide, kidnapping, felonious restraint, aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person.
He was in Crawford County Jail on $100,000 bond pending a preliminary hearing at a later date.
1994 conviction
In September 1994, Campbell was sentenced to 28 to 56 months in state prison after his guilty plea to charges of aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person in the Sept. 1, 1993, attack on Lisa Mitcheltree, 19, in Sharon.
He was accused of stabbing Mitcheltree, his girlfriend at the time, in the abdomen after she refused to give him money. Mitcheltree was more than seven months' pregnant, but she recovered from her wound and the child was unharmed.
Police caught up with Campbell that night on the Oakland Avenue Viaduct that spans the Shenango Valley Freeway but were unable to convince him that Mitcheltree and the baby had survived the attack.
Campbell jumped from the viaduct to the road 75 feet below, landing feet first. He was taken to Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, where he was initially listed in critical condition and was hospitalized for an extensive period.