By JON BAKER

LINCOLN — According to Police Chief Brian Sullivan, the Wedin brothers have had a history of arguments escalating into calls to the station, but never anything quite like this.

Police arrested Mark L. Wedin, 45, of 49 Pearl St. (second floor) at 1:47 a.m., Thursday, for felony domestic assault, apparently with a wood-handle ax and kitchen fork, against his older brother.
The good news: Both Mark and older brother Dennis P. Wedin, 46, of the same address, refused treatment on scene, and injuries were minimal. However, Mark spent the night at headquarters, then was arraigned Friday morning in Sixth District Court in Providence before being transported to the Adult Correctional Institute in Cranston on a Superior Court bench warrant.
He’s being held on $25,000 surety bail.
“We’re familiar with the family; we’ve responded to incidents in the past,” Sullivan stated. “Any time a weapon is involved, especially an ax, it’s serious. It’s never risen to this kind of level before.”
This scenario began at about 1:15 a.m. That’s when Patrolmen Richard Bousquet and Edward Walusiak responded to the Manville residence and spoke with David S. Wedin, father of the two men. The elder Wedin indicated his son, Dennis, had walked from the second-floor apartment to the first with an ax in hand, asking his dad to call police. The reason: He allegedly had just been assaulted with it, and a fork, by his kid brother.
According to Bousquet’s report, the siblings began arguing about the type of food Mark was eating.
Dennis Wedin informed police that his brother was highly intoxicated, and — during the argument — Mark had gone to his room, returned and allegedly attacked him with the ax. As the scuffle intensified, Dennis wrested the ax from him, and had suffered a scrape to his chest from the fork Mark had held in his other hand.
The two officers then trekked to the second-floor dwelling and spoke with Mark, observing he had a bloody lip and forehead laceration and that he was slurring his speech. When asked if he had been drinking, the suspect admitted he had earlier at Effin’s Bar & Grill, but didn’t assault his brother with an ax.
Walusiak seized the ax, though couldn’t locate the fork, the report states. The officer also took photographs of Dennis’ injuries and of the ax for detectives’ use.
“Mark is being held at the ACI for being a violator of a previous assault charge,” Sullivan stated. “Like I said, this has happened in the past, and we’ve arrested Mark in the past.”