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COUNCIL BLUFFS — Council Bluffs police say a New Mexico man stabbed his brother in a fight that began over who had eaten “the last of the ribs.”

A 34-year-old man was charged with willful injury and domestic assault with intent to inflict serious injury after the Saturday incident. He is being held at the Pottawattamie County Jail and faces up to 12 years in prison if convicted.

Bluffs police responded to a dispute at midnight Saturday inside a room at a hotel near 27th Avenue and South 24th Street. Investigators found a pocket knife outside the door with blood on it. In the bathroom, they found the injured brother cleaning blood from a wound to his abdomen.

The 35-year-old man was taken to Jennie Edmundson Hospital in the Bluffs.

The 34-year-old told police that he had been arguing with his brother about the ribs. The 35-year-old said his brother punched him, and he later noticed he had been stabbed .