Two men have been charged in connection with a downtown stabbing on June 24.

Leslie Goss, 55, is charged with a felony count of assault with a weapon and Arlyn Castro, 43, is charged with a felony count of criminal possession of dangerous drugs.

According to court documents, a Cascade County sheriff’s deputy was patrolling downtown just after midnight June 24.

The deputy was in the area of Central Avenue and 7th Street when he noticed what appeared to be a fight. He activated his emergency lights and the group fled, including the person who was stabbed.

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The deputy followed one male, later identified as Gabriel Parker-Carlson, into the 600 block of 1st Alley South. Parker-Carlson ignored the deputy’s commands to stop and was placed in handcuffs. The deputy noticed that Parker-Carlson appeared to have a stab wound to his upper left chest and transported him to Benefis Health System.

Parker-Carlson was convicted by a jury on June 23 of misdemeanor partner or family member assault. He was acquitted on charges of felony assault with a weapon and strangulation of a partner or family member.

His charges were from a Feb. 2 incident with a woman he was accused of hitting with a hammer, causing injury to her face and arm, choking and biting her. At the time, he was a registered violent offender with convictions in federal court for aggravated assault and strangulation of a family member and a probation violation on that charge, as well as misdemeanor assault and PFMA charges, according to court documents.

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Castro was on the sidewalk near Parker-Carlson when the deputy arrived and was visible in the dashcam footage.

An officer detained Castro and conducted a pat-down search, during which the officer found a folded piece of cardboard that contained a crystal-like substance that gave a presumptive positive for methamphetamine during a field test, according to court documents.

Castro was taken to the Great Falls Police Department, where he agreed to speak to investigators, according to court documents.

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Castro told officers that he is a “shot caller” for the Bloods and was with Parker-Carlson and another male when two men they hadn’t seen before arrived, saying Parker-Carlson owed them a debt and they wanted to fight, according to court documents.

Castro told investigators that he’d given the “green light” for Parker-Carson and the other male with them to fight the newly arrived men.

Castro told investigators he said he saw one of the males stab Parker-Carlson.

He said a woman had been with them and the male who stabbed Parker-Carlson was her man, which he said could be Goss, according to court documents.

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The woman was on the sidewalk when the deputy arrived and was visible in the dashcam footage. She stepped between the deputy and Parker-Carlson while the deputy was giving commands, then left the scene, returning around 1:56 a.m. when she was transported to GFPD.

She told investigators that Goss was her boyfriend and they lived together in the 400 block of 10th Street North.

A downstairs neighbor told officers that she had returned home around 1 a.m. saying “he beat me up again” and showing a bruise on her stomach. The “he” is believed to be Goss, according to court documents, and they had reason to believe he was inside their residence.

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A witness called police around 9:30 a.m. to report an attempted entry to the residence and responding officers saw the blinds move and a bicycle Goss was known to ride was in the entryway, according to court documents.

Another witness reported seeing a female yelling at someone inside the residence around 1:17 a.m.

Officers obtained search warrants and activated the High Risk Unit to apprehend Goss at the residence.

In custody, he told officers that he’d argued with his girlfriend and went for a walk downtown where he met a male he didn’t know. While they were walking, a group of males started a fight with them and his girlfriend was with the other group.

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Goss told investigators that he fought with one of the males who was punching him and when police arrived, they ran away.

Officers obtained video footage of the incident, according to court documents, which showed:

• Goss and another male walk west from 8th Street on the north side of Central Avenue and cross at the intersection of 7th Street and Central
• the other group, including Parker-Carlson is on the southwest corner of 7th Street and Central
• Goss and the other male cross at an angle, not using the crosswalk, to reach the group, and begin fighting immediately upon contact
• Goss is seen fighting with the victim; his right arm drops, after which he turns and walks away, immediately followed by the appearance of the deputy’s emergency lights.

Another camera angle shows Goss’s face, identifying him as the suspect in the stabbing, according to court documents.

Castro is being held in the Cascade County Adult Detention Center on a $50,000 bond.

He has previous convictions for assault, criminal trespass to a vehicle, criminal endangerment and two aggravated felony assaults.