infoArrested after stabbing wife at motel

Deputies responded to a Budget Inn where they found a 48-year-old woman with multiple wounds consistent with being stabbed or cut. The victim was taken to the hospital in critical but stable condition. Her husband, 58-year-old Alexander Fuentes, told detectives that he stabbed her in self-defense after she started hitting him. Fuentes was arrested on a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.