Must return Thursday for preliminary hearing

 

A man who allegedly used a machete to attack his wife was arraigned Tuesday afternoon in Ironton Municipal Court.

Judge O. Clark Collins set bond at $20,000 for Alexander Ferreira, 30, of 615 Cliff St., Ironton, and appointed Mike Davenport as legal counsel for him.

“These are pretty serious charges,” Assistant Lawrence County Prosecutor Mack Anderson noted in asking for the $20,000 bond.

Collins scheduled a preliminary hearing for Thursday.

Ferreira was arrested Friday after his wife allegedly told a doctor at Our Lady Of Bellefonte Hospital in Russell, Ky., that her husband cut her throat with a machete.

The woman was treated and released. Ironton Police Detective, Capt. Chris Bowman said the cause of the incident was a domestic dispute; he did not give details.