Linda man arrested in frying pan attack

A Linda man was jailed on Wednesday, accused of beating his longtime girlfriend with a frying pan.

The night before Jon A. Wilkerson attacked the woman with a skillet, he stabbed the 33-year-old woman in the leg with a knife, the Yuba County Sheriff's Department reported.

"But (the stabbing) attack was unreported," Lt. Damon Gil said.

The victim's name is being withheld because of the domestic violence allegations. She was treated and released Wednesday from Rideout Memorial Hospital, Gil said.

The couple began bickering around 9 p.m. Tuesday at their home in the 1100 block of Grand Avenue in Linda, deputies said.

Exactly what they were fighting about remains unclear.

The argument ended, deputies said, when Wilkerson stabbed the woman in the thigh, leaving a large laceration Gil described as "nonlife-threatening."

The couple got into a second dispute around 7:30 p.m. the following night that sent sheriff's deputies to their home, Gil said.

Deputies found the couple arguing outside in the front yard of their home.

"The investigators learned the woman had been struck in the head with a frying pan," Gil said.

Wilkerson, 30, was booked into the Yuba County Jail on suspicion of two counts each of assault with a deadly weapon and spousal abuse.

He was still in custody Thursday. Bail was set at $50,000. A court date was not available.