Man Stabbed In Rural Platteville

The Grant County Sheriff’s Office received a call on Sunday around 3:30am regarding a stabbing that had occurred at a residence on Southwest Road in Platteville Township. The investigating personnel learned that two men who were in Grant County from Florida for work, had been involved in an argument which led to one of the two men being stabbed and cut, multiple times by the other man. The Sheriff’s Office took 45 year old Johnny Simon of Orlando, Florida into custody and he is currently being held in the Grant County Jail facing formal charges. The matter is still being investigated and once the investigation is complete, Simon will be formally charged in court.