SAINT JOHN – City police have arrested a suspect in an alleged stabbing on the lower west side Wednesday afternoon.

Police were called to a home on Winslow Street shortly after 4pm to a report of a possible stabbing.

A man was  taken to the Saint John Regional Hospital with stab wounds to the chest.

The suspect, who was still armed, fled the area on foot but was later caught by police in the area of the Old Rothesay Road.