A now former Elkview McDonald’s employee who is accused of stabbing and robbing a customer in the restaurant’s bathroom is headed back to prison for crimes he was on probation for at the time of the alleged attack. Richard Thornton faces charges after a Jan. 17 incident at the McDonald’s at the Crossings Mall. At the time of the arrest, Thornton was on probation in connection to a 2019 case where he was arrested for pulling a knife on a paramedic while riding in the back of an ambulance in Elkview. He later pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted malicious wounding and had already served nearly three years of a two to six years sentence in that case before being put on probation.