Man Arrested In East Tennessee Chain Saw Attack Posted: Monday, August 23, 2010 7:43 AM EST 
 
 (AP) KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Kentucky State Police have arrested a man wanted in a chain saw attack on an East Tennessee man. 
 
 A news release from the agency said troopers arrested 27-year-old Brandon Petrey of Whitley County, Ky., shortly after 10 p.m. EDT Sunday. 
 
 Petrey is held on a charge of attempted second-degree murder and two local bench warrants from eastern Kentucky. 
 
 The Knoxville News Sentinel reported Petrey and another person were cutting tree branches and shrubs in a subdivision in Knox County, Tenn., and the victim went to stop them from cutting along his parents' property. 
 
 They got into an argument and police said the victim was cut on a thumb. It wasn't clear how serious the injury was, but Knox County Sheriff's spokeswoman Ashley Haynes said the man was taken to a hospital. His name wasn't released. 
 
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 Kentucky State Trooper First Class Don Trosper gave a quote about Petrey's arrest. His name was incorrect in an earlier version of this story. 
 
 WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. - Kentucky Police have arrested a Whitley County, Ky., landscape worker accused of assaulting a West Knox County homeowner with a chainsaw on Saturday. 
 
 Police located Brandon Petrey, 27, in Whitley County and arrested him at 10:09 p.m. Sunday "without incident," Kentucky State Trooper First Class Don Trosper said today. 
 
 Petrey is being held in Whitley County Jail, charged on two local bench warrants, and is awaiting extradition to Knox County, where he faces a charge of attempted second-degree murder in the incident, with a bond of $250,000, authorities said. 
 
 According to the Knox County Sheriff's Office, Petrey, as part of a two-man landscaping job in the River Bend subdivision off Northshore Drive, was going down the street cutting shrubs and branches with a chainsaw when he came to 1835 Schriver Road. 
 
 The victim, whose name has not been released, had been watching what Petrey was doing and went to stop him when he reached his home, which he shares with his parents. 
 
 The two men got into an altercation, and the victim's thumb was injured. The homeowner was transported to the University of Tennessee Medical Center, according to KCSO. 
 
 More details as they develop online and in Tuesday's News Sentinel.
– So it's not exactly the Tennessee chain saw massacre, but it does involve a crime and a chainsaw: Police arrested 27-year-old Brandon Petrey yesterday on a charge of attempted second-degree murder after a day of landscaping went awry. Petrey and a co-worker were cutting tree branches and shrubs in a subdivision in Knox County, Tenn., on Saturday, when a man asked them not to cut along his parents' property. An argument ensued, and Petrey reportedly cut the man's thumb, reports the Knoxville News Sentinel. The unnamed victim was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. Read the full article.