Local law enforcement authorities are breathing easier following a holiday weekend described as "eerily quiet" one year after one man was killed and two others injured in separate stabbings. "I do remember last year and I certainly didn't want a repeat," Wright City Police Chief Henry Matthews said. "It was probably one of the quietest weekends we had in a while." No major incidents were reported by authorities who said frigid temperatures likely played a major part. That's the feeling shared by both Sheriff Kevin Harrison and Warrenton Police Chief Greg Houdyshell. "It was very quiet," Harrison said. "I think the cold weather kept everyone in. Everyone was trying to stay warm." Houdyshell added: "Weather plays a factor in it." Throughout the past holiday weekend, only two people were arrested in the county on suspicion of drinking and driving. One arrest was made by the Warrenton Police Department, according to Houdyshell, during the afternoon of New Year's Day following a crash. The other arrest was made early Jan. 2 by the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Wright City police officers arrested two individuals over the weekend, including a man believed to have assaulted a female acquaintance Jan. 1. Matthews said officers responded to the Midwest Petroleum gas station around 12:40 a.m. on Jan. 1 and took the man into custody. The female victim told officers she was beaten and thrown out of the vehicle. The extent of the woman's injuries was unknown. Matthews said an investigation is ongoing. Last year, a New Year's Eve party in the 13000 block of Bobwhite Lane turned tragic when two 18-year-old males ambushed people at the residence. By the time authorities responded to the scene at 12:51 a.m., a Hispanic male identified as Fernando Melgar was dead with stab wounds in the chest, abdomen and back. Another man, Raymond Post, who lived at the residence, was critically injured. He was airlifted to a St. Louis hospital where his spleen was removed. He also suffered liver and lung damage. The two suspects, Matthew Johnson and Matthew Marshall, have since pled guilty to the incident. Johnson has been sentenced to 24 years in prison. In an unrelated incident in Warrenton, also early New Year's morning last year, an altercation ensued at a residence following an argument at a bar. A man in his mid-20s wound up being airlifted to a the hospital after being stabbed. The incident occurred in the 300 block of South Highway 47 around 1:50 a.m. The investigation was closed after the victim declined to press charges against the other individual.