Woman charged in boyfriend’s stabbing

PANAMA CITY BEACH - A woman has been charged with aggravated domestic battery in the stabbing of her boyfriend Monday morning in Panama City Beach.

Police responded about 8 a.m. to a local hospital, where a man had been treated after being stabbed with a box cutter. The man was leaving for work, investigators reported, when his live-in girlfriend threw the box cutter and it penetrated his back about 2 inches.

Police interviewed the man’s girlfriend, 34-year-old Amanda Leigh Strickland, and reported that she made incriminating statements regarding the stabbing. Strickland was arrested and is being held in Bay County Jail.