Four people are facing charges after two men were stabbed in Dartmouth early Tuesday morning.
Halifax Regional Police say an officer walking in the Primrose Street area around 2:30 a.m. was approached by a citizen asking for help.
Officers responded to a nearby home, where they found a 49-year-old man and an 18-year-old man suffering from stab wounds.
Police say the men were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. They have since been released from hospital.
A short time later, members of the emergency response team arrested four people – two men, a woman and a teen – in the area of Catherine Street and Farrell Road.
Police say all four are facing charges in connection with the stabbing.
A 16-year-old male youth has been charged with two counts of assault with a weapon, two counts of assault with a weapon causing bodily harm, two counts of robbery, break and enter and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.
Christopher Steven Slaunwhite, 20, Natasha Irene Lee White, 20, and Theodore Payne St. Onge, 24, all of Dartmouth, each face two counts of assault with a weapon, two counts of assault with a weapon causing bodily harm, two counts of robbery, break and enter and two counts of possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.
Slaunwhite has also been charged with two counts of breach of probation while White has been charged with one count of breach of probation.