By Jim Clark

Police were dispatched to a Winter Hill Circle apartment complex last week on reports of a dispute between a landlord and a tenant.

Upon arrival, officers learned that the tenant, Anna Nikitenko, 29, had reportedly failed to pay her second month’s rent on a room that she was renting and the landlord put a lock on her door. It was for this reason that Nikitenko called the police.

The officers advised the two parties to have the matter resolved in civil court, and Nikitenko was allowed back into her shared apartment.

Police then left the scene, but were called back approximately 30 minutes later on an assault call.

It was Nikitenko who again called the police, claiming that her roommate had attacked her with a knife. Nikitenko was reportedly crying when officers arrived and she told them that he was “coming up to her.”

In questioning the roommate, police were told that it was Nikitenko who had wielded a butter knife and had threatened him, allegedly because of the trouble that had been caused between she and the landlord, police said.

The roommate reportedly told police that Nikitenko had threatened him with the knife and had uttered racial epithets against him.

When questioned on the matter, Nikitenko initially denied handling the knife, but later admitted to picking it up when it was suggested that it would be checked for fingerprints, according to reports.

Based on the roommate’s allegations and other mitigating factors, Nikitenko was placed under arrest and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon.