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WELLINGTON, Carbon County — A man who police say tried to kill someone he believed to be a convicted sex offender was arrested after stabbing the victim multiple times.

Thad Gurule, 32, of Price, was booked into the Carbon County Jail on Wednesday for investigation of attempted murder, marijuana possession, possession of drug paraphernalia and drug possession.

Police were called about 2 a.m. Monday to a Wellington residence where they found a man "covered in blood standing on the front porch. The male was located a short distance from the originating dispatch location and had sustained multiple stab wounds and lacerations throughout his body," a police booking affidavit states. "Officers learned that (the man) was stabbed approximately 17 times with mult

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