Dustin Diamond, best known for playing Screech in the sitcom "Saved by the Bell," began serving his four-month jail sentence at a Wisconsin jail after he stabbed a man during a bar fight in December 2014, according to Fox News.
Diamond started his sentence on Friday at the Ozaukee County Jail. The 39-year-old actor was sentenced to four months in prison and 15 months probation after being convicted of charges including carrying a concealed weapon and disorderly conduct in June. He was acquitted of a felony charge, as HNGN previously reported.
The actor stabbed a 25-year-old man in the armpit with a pocket knife during an altercation at a Port Washington bar on Christmas Day in 2014.
Diamond argued that he was just trying to protect his girlfriend, Amanda Schutz, and was acting in self defence when he pulled out the weapon in an attempt to scare people off and accidentally stabbed the victim, who suffered a non-life threatening injury in the incident. Schutz was convicted of disorderly conduct, according to NBC News.
The couple were also ordered by the judge to pay $1,500 as restitution fees to the victim.
