Woman Threw Knives at Husband, Police Say

A Bethlehem Township woman was jailed after she allegedly threw knives at her husband, who was forced to run for safety from their Bruce Lane home Sunday night, police said.

Malinda C. Horninger, 43, was charged with simple assault and recklessly endangering another person for the attack.

According to court records, the husband told police that Horninger started arguing with him when he came home from work. She had been drinking, he said.

The husband said he stayed away from his wife, who passed out while she was cooking dinner, police said. When she came to, she started yelling and came after him and grabbed him around the neck and pushed him around, police said.

The husband said he started filming his wife and showed police video of her grabbing him around the neck, police said. He said his wife has done this before and that she has “a drinking problem.”

The husband said he started to gather some belongings to leave the house when his wife grabbed some knives and started throwing them at him, according to the arrest affidavit.

He picked up two of them so that she couldn’t pick them up, he told police. He ran out of the back door, into the yard and called 911, he told police.

Township police were called to the scene a little before 8 p.m. The arresting officer, Stephen B. Malitzki Jr., wrote that he found the husband walking between his home and a neighbor’s and carrying the two kitchen knives.

Malitzki took custody of the knives and then went to the home’s front door when Horninger came out onto the front porch.

“A strong odor of an alcoholic beverage” was on her breath as she screamed and yelled as police took her into custody, the affidavit said.

Horninger was arraigned before on-duty District Judge Diane Marakovits of Northampton and committed to Northampton County Prison in lieu of $5,000 bail.