Authorities in Pottawattamie County (Wednesday) were investigating a crime scene associated with a stabbing incident that happened in Walnut, Wednesday afternoon. Pott. County Sheriff Jeff Danker told KJAN News a male subject walked into the Econolodge in Walnut at around 2-p.m., saying he had been stabbed at a nearby car wash. He gave authorities a description of the vehicle the alleged assailant was in, as a Honda Insight. That vehicle was stopped a short time later at the weigh station near mile marker 44 on Interstate 80.

Danker says two people were taken into custody, one is a suspect in the stabbing, the other for having possession of illegal items. It’s not clear what those items were. The victim suffered stab wounds to his back and chest. He was transported by Walnut Rescue along Highway 83, where they tiered with Medivac Ambulance from Atlantic.

The victim was brought to the Cass County Memorial Hospital and later transported by LifeNet to an undisclosed trauma center. Additional information is not available, in-part because there was a language barrier between the subjects and authorities. No names have been released.