By Jim Clark

Police were called to the Outback Steakhouse restaurant at Grand Union Blvd. last Friday on reports of a dispute.

Upon arrival, officers questioned the involved parties.

According to reports, one of the restaurant’s employees, Aleyah Childs, of Dorchester, stated that after arriving prior to beginning her shift, she had been treated disrespectfully by one of her coworkers.

Childs reportedly told officers that she had arrived at work and parked her vehicle in front of the restaurant. When she saw the coworker in question she began to engage him in conversation and asked him “who is the manager on duty today.”

According to Childs, the coworker was rude to her and told her to leave him alone, after which the two began to verbally argue. Childs further reportedly stated that the coworker became extremely aggressive and the two of them began to engage in a physical altercation.

The officers then questioned the coworker. He stated that he had just arrived to work and was making his way into the restaurant when Childs, who was still seated in the driver’s seat of her vehicle, rolled down the window and began to yell at him and threatened to stab him. According to the coworker, Childs wielded what appeared to be a buck knife with a silver blade.

The two continued their verbal disagreement, according to the coworker, and Childs exited the vehicle, but no longer had the knife in her possession. The coworker was asked if an actual physical assault took place and he stated that one had not.

Police then looked inside the vehicle that Childs had stated was hers and reportedly spotted in plain sight a buck styled knife with a silver blade located in the center console.

The officers asked Childs if the knife was hers and she reportedly told them that it was hers, but that she had not threatened the coworker with it or ever displayed it during the dispute.

Police then placed Childs under arrest on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon.