CENTRAL — A Central woman was arrested on Sunday after police claim she stabbed her husband in the back during a domestic dispute.

Mary Ann Hopkins, 55, was charged with high and aggravated domestic violence and possession of a weapon during a violent crime, according to Pickens County Sheriff’s Office chief deputy Creed Hashe.

Pickens County authorities first got word of the incident when Anderson County officials alerted them that an injured man had been dropped off at a home in Anderson County following an altercation at a home at 3324 Highway 88 in Central.

The subsequent investigation revealed a verbal dispute between a husband and wife led to the woman stabbing the man in the lower back, requiring him to be transported and treated at a hospital, Hashe said.

The man’ s injury was not believed to be life-threatening.

Hashe said the assault appeared to have stemmed from an argument over the man’s consumption of alcohol.

Hopkins was still being held Tuesday at the Pickens County Detention Center on a total of $25,000 in surety bonds.