JANUARY 24--A Maine woman who was expecting to engage in a “threesome” with neighbors is facing criminal charges for allegedly brandishing several knives after the tryst failed to occur, police report.

Valerie Nile, 44, was arrested late Tuesday evening inside the home of Edward Sabatino, who called 911 to report that Nile was “intoxicated and was threatening him with a knife.”

When Knox County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived at the 56-year-old Sabatino’s residence, he told them that “they were all drinking and hanging out” when Nile went into the kitchen and retrieved three knives. Sabatino, who shares his home with roommate Shawna Chickering, 30, said that Nile “lives two trailers over.”

After being handcuffed by a deputy, Nile explained that she, Sabatino, and Chickering “were going to have a threesome.” That encounter did not materialize (though the trio of knives did).

A deputy noted that Chickering, who was observed “sleeping” on a couch, claimed she did not observe anything. Chickering’s two children were asleep in a bedroom during the incident.

Charged with criminal threatening and terrorizing, Nile was booked into the Knox County jail, where she is being held in lieu of $250 cash bail. Nile, who lives in the southern Maine town of Friendship, is pictured in the above mug shot. (4 pages)