PANAMA CITY — Two Bay County women have been arrested in connection with two separate domestic incidents in which their boyfriend was left with a stab wound, according to court documents.
Cheyn Nicole Best, 20, and Amber Annette Toledo, 23, were arrested Sunday on charges of aggravated battery. Authorities in separate parts of the county made the arrests after two men, live-in boyfriends of the two ladies, complained of being stabbed by their girlfriends at different times Sunday evening, according to Bay County court records.
Both women made their first appearance in court Monday.
Best was arrested at about 6:45 p.m. Sunday at 132 N. Jan Ave. in Callaway, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office reported. Best was in an argument with her live-in boyfriend, 29-year-old Denis Ayala, when he went to the couple’s bedroom. She followed behind Ayala and first sprayed him with an air freshener in the face, deputies said.
“Best then walked into the bedroom with a steak knife and stabbed him in his arm causing a serious injury by cutting an artery in his arm,” investigators reported.
On the other side of Bay County, in an apartment on Azalea Avenue, Panama City Beach Police arrested Toledo at about 10:30 p.m.
PCBPD reported that Toledo stabbed her live-in boyfriend, 33-year-old Justin Dezelan, in the abdomen with a steak knife. When police arrived, Dezelan told the officers, “she didn’t mean to stab me,” according to arrest reports. The couple was in an argument about money while Toledo was cutting food for dinner.
Toledo said the argument escalated to the point when Dezelan grabbed her by the throat, and she said she stabbed him in self-defense, police reported.
“When he came at me again I had to defend myself, I stabbed him,” she told police.
Both Toledo and Dezelan were arrested in the incident.
Both women made their first appearances in court Monday.
Toledo faces charges of aggravated battery while Best faces charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.