Tampa police: Kicked out of bar, drunken man returns with knife

TAMPA — Drunk and disorderly, a Tampa man was told to leave a bar around midnight Saturday. But he wasn't gone long from the Stop In Tavern.

Police say he soon returned with a 10-inch kitchen knife.

According to jail records, the "extremely intoxicated" suspect confronted a male victim and stabbed him once in the left forearm. The knife, police said, went in one side and out the other.

The victim was not named in the arrest report.

Bar patrons subdued the suspect until police arrived at the tavern, 4317 W South Ave., in Drew Park.

Timoteo Garcia, 40, of Tampa was arrested Sunday morning at St. Joseph's Hospital. He faces a charge of aggravated battery.

Garcia was being held Sunday at the Hillsborough County Jail on $7,500 bail.