YOUNGSTOWN — A woman, 40, of Almyra Avenue is charged with domestic violence and was taken to jail, accused of stabbing her husband, 32, multiple times with a pen.

He was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.

When police arrived at the corner of Almyra and Firnley avenues on the South Side for a 2:29 p.m. Saturday call regarding a stabbing, police found the victim and the suspect talking in the street near a car.

According to the police report, the man said he and the woman had been at the Newport branch of the Youngstown Mahoning County Public Library on Market Street sitting in his vehicle, when he told the woman he was cheating on her.

The woman then became irate and hit him in the face with an unopened pop can and bottle of cologne, he said. The woman then started to stab him in the face and neck with a pen, according to the report.

They both got out of the vehicle and a bystander called 911. They waited for police but later he decided to take the woman to their home on Almyra Avenue, he said.

In the car, the woman attacked him, causing him to have to slam on the brakes and park his car in the middle of the street, he said. The woman then took the keys and threw them into woods nearby, he said.

The man had swelling on his face and three stab wounds — one in his eyebrow, one in the eye and one in the neck, the report notes.

The woman told police the couple is going through a divorce. She said they were talking about the divorce in the car, and her husband asked her to get back together. She said no and the man became angry and pulled a knife, she said.

She used the pop can and knife in self-defense, she told police. She said they argued about their relationship in the car as they drove near home, so she put the car in park and threw the keys into the woods. The woman appeared to have no injuries, police said.

Police concluded that the woman was the primary aggressor, and she was arrested.

Youngstown Municipal Court records do not list the woman as having any charges.