(WXIN) – Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears has filed more serious charges against former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez for his involvement in a stabbing incident in downtown Indianapolis early Saturday.

Sanchez was arrested Sunday while recovering in the hospital and charged with several misdemeanors after details came out accusing him of being the aggressor in the incident.

Sanchez was earlier charged with misdemeanor criminal charges of battery resulting in injury, public intoxication, and unlawful entry of a motor vehicle for his alleged role in the altercation. But after seeing the extent of the victim's injuries and factoring in the victim’s age, Mears has moved to upgrade Sanchez’s charges to a Level 5 felony battery of causing serious injury, the prosecutor said at a press confer

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