Belfast man charged with attempted murder

BELFAST, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- A man from Belfast made his first court appearance Wednesday on charges he robbed, kidnapped and tried to kill a seventy-two year-old woman. 

According to court documents, Stanley Ward went to the home of Patricia Moss house Tuesday afternoon. Ward knows moss because his father mows her lawn. After Moss invited Ward in, he allegedly overpowered her, held a knife to her throat, and demanded money. Moss gave him all the money she had and wrote him a check.

The documents say Ward bound her hands with tape and forced her into her car, driving her to a camper on Dutton Pond Rd. in Knox. There, he allegedly cut her throat and she lost consciousness. Moss eventually woke up and crawled the entire length of the dirt road to the main road, where a passerby called 911.

Police arrested Ward at his home in Belfast early this morning. Assistant District Attorney Eric Walker says Ward has confessed to the crimes.

"Basically just admitted his involvement in this, indicating that he did go there with the idea of attacking this suspect," Walker said. "He went there with a knife and ended up carrying through this plan that he had been thinking about for the past two days."