Originally published Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 8:41 AM

Arlington girl, 17, charged in Maryland transient camp stabbing

CUMBERLAND, Md. — A 17-year-old girl from Washington state has been charged as an adult with attempted murder in the stabbing of a man at a hobo camp in Maryland.

By The Associated Press

CUMBERLAND, Md. — A 17-year-old girl from Washington state has been charged as an adult with attempted murder in the stabbing of a man at a hobo camp in Maryland.

Police said today that Jessika Brown, of Arlington, Wash., stabbed 22-year-old Jimmy Lee Blank, of Tacoma, nine times in the abdomen during a drunken altercation near the CSX railroad tracks in Cumberland Tuesday night.

A hospital spokeswoman for the Western Maryland Health System refused to release Blank's condition.

Investigators say Brown and Blank had traveled to Cumberland from Chicago by hopping trains.

Police say that after the stabbing, a 19-year-old man from Iselin, N.J., helped Brown flag down a motorist to get Blank to the emergency room.

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