CLEARLAKE OAKS – Sheriff's investigators have located a suspect in a stabbing that occurred in Clearlake Oaks last week.

Chief Deputy James Bauman of the Lake County Sheriff's Office reported that on July 30 32-year-old Jason Allard had been stabbed with a knife during an altercation involving several teenaged suspects, as Lake County News reported last weekend.

Bauman said late last week that detectives were still trying to locate18-year-old James Thomas Hubman for questioning.

On Tuesday, Bauman said Hubman had since contacted the sheriff’s office and provided a statement, admitting to his involvement in the fight and to being the one responsible for stabbing Allard.

Hubman told sheriff’s detectives that during the fight Allard dove to the ground to retrieve a cane he had been hitting the others with, which caused Hubman to be afraid Allard would resume using the cane as a weapon, according to Bauman. So Hubman tried to stab him in the thigh with a pocket knife but struck him once in the lower back instead.

Bauman said the case has been closed and submitted to the District Attorney's Office for review and possible complaint against Hubman for felony assault with a deadly weapon.

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