(KMZA)--Charges have been dismissed against a Sabetha man arrested last month following an altercation involving a knife.

An order of dismissal was filed during the preliminary hearing for 53-year-old Michael Bankes.  Bankes had been charged with aggravated assault.

He was arrested January 8th after the Sabetha Police Department responded to a disturbance in the 13-hundred block of Main Street involving a knife and several individuals.

Bankes was transferred Thursday to the custody of the Kansas Department of Corrections who had a hold on him.