An Anchorage man was sentenced Thursday to serve 10 years in prison for stabbing a woman after he sent her to buy beer and she returned with "inadequate" change, according to the district attorney. Stephen Borozny, 53, was convicted in June of first-degree assault in the August 2008 stabbing, which took place in a cab outside a downtown liquor store.
According to police, Borozny sent Francis Katongan, a drinking buddy, into the Spirits of Alaska liquor store on Gambell Street to buy beer with a $50 bill. When Katongan got back, she handed him the beer and $12 in change.
Borozny, apparently enraged, got out of the front seat of the cab, opened the back door and stabbed Katongan in the stomach. He grabbed the beer and ran but was later caught.
At the sentencing, Judge Michael Spaan sentenced Borozny to 14 years in prison with four suspended. He also ordered Borozny on probation for three years and encouraged him to seek substance-abuse treatment, prosecutors said.
Anchorage Daily News