Man arrested for stabbing Scott County neighbor with pitchfork

SCOTT COUNTY, Ky. (WTVQ)- In Scott County, sheriff’s deputies have arrested a man for stabbing his neighbor with a pitchfork.

According to deputies, it happened Monday on Watkinsville Lane in Stamping Ground.

Deputies say they had been called there multiple times over disagreement between property lines.

Monday, they say that dispute escalated when 69-year-old Alan Covington stabbed his neighbor in the leg with a pitchfork.

That neighbor is expected to survive.

Covington is charged with assault.