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Schenectady, NY
Police & Fire
Woman Hit Wife With Car, Baseball Bat In Schenectady, She Admits In Plea Deal
A New York woman admitted to attacking her wife and a friend with a car and a baseball bat before leading state police on high-speed chases with kids in the car, authorities said Friday, March 27. Juanita Moore, a 25-year-old Schenectady resident, copped to one count of first-degree assault and one count of first-degree attempted assault on Wednesday, March 25, the Schenectady County District Attorney’s office said. The incident began on Halloween 2024, when Moore hopped in a Hertz rental car and drove to a home “where she knew her wife was staying with a friend,” the district attorney’s of…
Poughkeepsie, NY
Police & Fire
Duo Accused In Baseball Bat Beating In Poughkeepsie, Police Say
Two suspects have been arrested after a 42-year-old man was beaten severely with baseball bats during a violent attack in Dutchess County, police said. The incident happened just after 6 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 15, when City of Poughkeepsie 911 received a call reporting a disturbance on the 300 block of Main Street, the city's police department announced on Sunday, Nov. 17. Officers arrived to find the victim suffering injuries to the head, face, arms, and back. Police added that an investigation revealed the man had been struck repeatedly with baseball bats, and the suspects had fled …
Worcester, MA
Police & Fire
Worcester Man Indicted In Murder Of Father Of Young Girl; Body Found In Hubbardston Woods: DA
A 32-year-old Worcester man has been indicted on a murder charge after investigators found a man's body in Hubbardston earlier this year, prosecutors said. Ryan Wilcox is being held without bail in the death of Mitchell Burke, 32, the Worcester County District Attorney's Office said. A passerby found Burke's body in a wooded area off Brigham Street around 10 a.m. Jan. 4, authorities said. He suffered serious wounds from a baseball bat to the head, chest, and stomach, and his pants were pulled down, authorities said. Police have not explained why. Wilcox was arrested a few days later. …
Meriden, CT
Police & Fire
Baseball Bat Attack: Meriden Man Sentenced To 12 Years For Beating Woman In Store, State Says
A Meriden man will spend more than a decade behind bars for a violent attack that left a woman with life-threatening injuries, after he beat her in the head repeatedly with a baseball bat, authorities said. Esteban Hernaiz, 57, was sentenced to 12 years in prison, followed by eight years of special parole, for the 2021 assault that violated a court-ordered protective order meant to keep the victim safe, the State's Attorney said on Thursday, May 29. Hernaiz pleaded guilty to one count of assault in the first degree and one count of violation of a protective order. His sentence stems f…
Danbury, CT
Police & Fire
Crypto Bros' Danbury Kidnapping Plot Lands Florida Man 11 Years In Jail For Brutal Attack: Feds
A Florida man has been sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison for his role in a violent kidnapping that played out in broad daylight on a Danbury street. Anthony Pena, 24, of Miami Gardens, was one of several men who ambushed a couple, beat them, and forced them into a van in an attempt to extort their son, who is suspected of a massive cryptocurrency theft, the US Attorney for Connecticut said. The attack happened on August 25, 2024. Witnesses called 911 after seeing several men assaulting a man and shoving him into a white work van. Danbury Police spotted the van and trie…
Trumbull-Monroe, CT
Police & Fire
Norwalk Man Beat Elderly Former Family Member To Death With Baseball Bat In Trumbull: Police
Editor's note: This story was updated to reflect that Lida Shape died of her injuries. A Connecticut man was arrested after police said he beat his former mother-in-law, a 70-year-old woman, to death with a bat at a Trumbull apartment complex, authorities said. Ylli Shtopaku, 45, of Norwalk, is charged with murder in the attack at Ten Trumbull Apartment Complex on Oakview Drive in Trumbull, police said. Police say Shtopaku and Lida Shape, of Trumbull, had been related by marriage before a divorce. Witnesses told police that Shtopaku confronted several wom…
Litchfield, CT
Police & Fire
Masked Men With Bats Attack Litchfield Bar Workers In Fight That Began Over $71 Tab: Police
Two Connecticut men are facing felony charges after a violent bar assault that police say involved a baseball bat and left several people seriously injured, authorities said. Anthony Sidoti and Louis Williamson are accused of starting a fight in the area of Bohemian Pizza and Tacos on Banthum Road in Litchfield on Nov. 23, 2024, after refusing to pay a $71 bar tab, Connecticut State Police said. After multiple people broke up the altercation, the men left but allegedly returned around 2:30 a.m. the next day wearing the same clothes and masks. Williamson is accused of beating a bar emp…
Dauphin-Middle Paxton, PA
Schools
Baseball Bat Road Rage Incident Near Middle Paxton School: PA State Police
A man was arrested after he allegedly chased another person with a baseball bat and made threats during a road rage incident in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania State Police announced on Saturday, March 15. Troopers responded to 931 Peters Mountain Road in Middle Paxton Township at 3:26 p.m. on Thursday, March 14, after reports of the armed confrontation, PSP Harrisburg said in a release. The suspect pursued the victim on foot while wielding the bat and making threats, police said. As a precaution, Middle Paxton Elementary School was placed on lockdown, though authorities clarified the incident…
Central Islip, NY
News
MS-13 Leader Admits To 7 Brutal Murders, Including Brentwood High School Students
An MS-13 leader formally confessed to his role in seven murders and other violent crimes that devastated Long Island. Jairo Saenz, 28, also known as “Funny,” pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in Central Islip federal court on Tuesday, Jan. 14. Saenz, a high-ranking member of the MS-13 gang’s Brentwood/Central Islip Sailors clique, admitted to taking part in a reign of terror that included the murders of 14-year-old Nisa Mickens and 15-year-old Kayla Cuevas in September 2016, prosecutors said. The Brentwood High School students were brutally attacked with a machete and baseball bats af…
Holmdel, NJ
Police & Fire
Ex-Husband Of
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Star Sentenced For Stalking, Leading To Holmdel Home Invasion: Prosecutor
Thomas Manzo, the ex-husband of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Dina Cantin, was sentenced on Wednesday, Jan. 8, after previously pleading guilty to stalking her and her then-fiancé now-husband David Cantin, leading to a 2017 home invasion, authorities said. Manzo, a 59-year-old Franklin Lakes resident, pleaded guilty last October to stalking the couple in Holmdel between 2015 and 2019. James Mainello, a 57-year-old Bayonne resident, pleaded guilty to robbing and assaulting the same victims in May 2017, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond Santiago said. On Saturday, May 13, 201…
Patchogue-Medford, NY
News
Carjackers Who Hit Delivery Driver With Baseball Bat Sought After Medford Attack (
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Police are seeking tips after a delivery driver was carjacked and assaulted on Long Island. The incident happened in Medford, in front of a home on Race Avenue near Watch Hill Avenue, at around 9:15 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8. Suffolk County Police said the victim was sitting in his car when two men approached and pulled him out of the vehicle. They struck him with a baseball bat and stole his SUV. The vehicle was recovered a short time later. Police did not elaborate on the man’s injuries or condition. Detectives described the suspects as Black men, between 15 and 25 years old. One was capture…
Stafford, VA
Police & Fire
Baseball Bat-Bearing Man Behind Bars For Breaking, Entering Rampage In South Stafford: Sheriff
It was just one of those days for Marvin Ssettumba, who went ballistic with a baseball bat inside a South Stafford home before being caught attempting to flee. The 22-year-old was all smiles for the camera after going on a rampage on Monday afternoon, when he called his shot and took a swing at multiple items as he left a home in "complete ruin," officials said. According to a spokesperson from the Stafford County Sheriff's Office, shortly after 5 p.m. on Oct. 14, deputies were called to a residence on Morton Road, where there were reports of a breaking and entering incident involving&…
Southampton, NY
News
Horrific New Details Released In 'Vicious, Senseless' Killing Of Man At East Quogue Home
A man accused of beating and torturing his longtime friend to death on Long Island was charged with first-degree murder. Jeremy Allen, age 43, of East Quogue, was indicted in Suffolk County Court on Thursday, Oct. 10, in the death of 43-year-old Christopher Hahn. According to prosecutors, Allen and Hahn returned to Allen’s Oakville Avenue residence on the evening of Friday, Sept. 27, after spending hours at a bar. The two had been friends since high school. Earlier Report: Man Accused Of Killing Guest At His East Quogue Home Shortly after midnight, surveillance video captured the s…
Danbury, CT
Police & Fire
Couple Attacked With Bats In Daring Daylight Danbury Carjacking: Feds
A Connecticut couple said they were attacked with a baseball bat, tied up with duct tape, and kidnapped by six men who carjacked them in broad daylight, authorities said. Police in Danbury in Fairfield County on Sunday, Aug. 25, were called to Clapboard Ridge Road, near the intersection of East Gate Road, where witnesses said a group of people were beating up a man and were shoving him and a woman into a white van, the US Attorney General for Connecticut said. The alleged attackers sped away when police arrived before crashing about a mile from the start of the chase. Four men j…
Danbury, CT
Police & Fire
Alleged Kidnapping Leads To 6 Arrests, 3 Injured Officers In Danbury
An alleged kidnapping of two people in Fairfield County led to six arrests and three injured officers. The incident occurred in Danbury at 5:40 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 25, in the area of Clapboard Ridge Road near Dogwood Lane. According to Erin Henry, spokesperson for the Danbury Police Department, police responded to a call reporting three men in a van assaulted another man before pushing him inside the vehicle and speeding away. Henry said officers spotted the van on Clapboard Ridge Road and attempted to stop it, but the driver sped away. Police located the vehicle a short…
Edgewater Park-Beverly, NJ
Police & Fire
Man Sentenced To 90 Years In Prison For Baseball Bat Killing In Beverly City, Prosecutors Say
A man will likely spend the rest of his life in prison after beating a Highland Park man to death with a baseball bat in Burlington County, authorities said. Larry Brown, 29, was sentenced on Tuesday, Aug. 20 to 90 years in prison, Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia Bradshaw said in a news release. A jury found him guilty in March of a dozen charges including first-degree murder. Brown was convicted of killing 34-year-old Cecilio Luciano inside a home on Bentley Avenue in Beverly City. Officers responded to the house at around 1:15 a.m. on Tuesday, June 14, 20…
Jersey City, NJ
Police & Fire
Two Jersey City Cops Burglarized Business, Used Baseball Bat To Threaten Victims: Prosecutor
Two Jersey City police officers were among three people arrested and charged on Thursday, July 18, with making terroristic threats and burglarizing a structure in January, authorities said. On Sunday, January 28, officers Adrian Tejada, 28 and Robert Nunez, 41, along with Mario Albero, 45, entered a private structure on Zabriskie Street in Jersey City with a baseball bat, and began making threats to harm people, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Albero was charged with possessing the baseball bat and burglary, Suarez said. Tejada and Nunez were charged with making terroristi…
Kingston, NY
Police & Fire
Hudson Valley Woman Feuding With Neighbor Beats Him With Baseball Bat, Police Say
A Hudson Valley woman who had been fighting with a neighbor allegedly beat him with a baseball bat and then busted out his car windows. Ulster County resident Genesis Spatola, age 42, of Highland, was charged on Tuesday, Feb. 6 in Highland. According to Chief James Janso of the town of Lloyd Police, Spatola is accused of assaulting her 72-year-old neighbor with a baseball bat causing injuries to the victim’s face and legs. Spatola is also accused of smashing out the victim’s car windows with the baseball bat causing extensive damage to the vehicle, Janso said. She was…
West Chester, PA
Police & Fire
PA's Own 'Shakira' Charged For Baseball Bat Assault
A West Chester woman is accused of beating another with a baseball bat, according to Westtown-East Goshen police. Authorities said it happened on the 200 block of Baldwin Drive in East Goshen on Oct. 29. Officers spoke with the alleged victim, who had "physical injuries consistent with the assault," and arrested 20-year-old Shakira S. Boyer, the department said. Boyer is charged with felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and was released after posting 10 percent of her $10,000 bail, court records show. She is due back before a judge for her preliminary hea…
Glen Burnie, MD
Police & Fire
Teenage Troublemakers Beat Man In The Head With Baseball Bat In Brooklyn Park Attack
A man is recovering after being beaten in the head with a baseball bat in Brooklyn Park, authorities say. Officers were approached by the victim, who had a large gash to his forehead after the attack, around 9 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 25, according to Anne Arundel County police. The 29-year-old victim stated that he was attacked by three black teenage boys in the area of Kramme Avenue and Townsend Avenue. The victim stated that the boys said something to him before beating him in the head with a metal baseball bat. The victim was taken to an area hospital for treatment of non life-threatening i…
Mount Pleasant, NY
Police & Fire
Man Hospitalized After Being Hit In Head By Bat On Halloween In Hudson Valley
An area man was seriously injured after being hit in the head with a bat on Halloween. The incident took place around 8:45 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 31 on Fountain Place, in Poughkeepsie, said the City of Poughkeepsie Poice. When police arrived on the scene of the attack, they found a man who had been struck in the head with a baseball bat, police said. Officers immediately rendered aid and secured the scene for Mobile Life. The victim was transported to MidHudson Regional Hospital and was admitted for treatment. Crime Scene technicians responded to the scene to collect evidence. T…
Edison, NJ
Police & Fire
Central Jersey Man Beat Acquaintance To Death With Baseball Bat, Prosecutor Says
A Central Jersey man is accused of beating his acquaintance to death with a baseball bat, authorities said. Curtis Wright, 57, was charged with murder in the early Saturday morning death of Howard Smith, 53, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Chief Frank LoSacco said. Police responding to a Main Avenue home in East Brunswick on reports of an unconscious man found Smith with signs of blunt force trauma around 6:50 a.m., authorities said. Smith was pronounced dead at the scene. An investigation by Detective Alex Danese of the East Brunswick Police Department and Dete…
Brentwood, NY
Police & Fire
Suspects At Large After Hitting Victim With Bat In Robbery On Residential Long Island Street
Police are searching for a pair of suspects who they say struck a victim with a bat during a robbery that happened in broad daylight on Christmas Day on a residential Long Island street. It happened on Friday, Dec. 25 at 3:45 p.m. in Uniondale. A 26-year-old male victim was walking southbound on Nostrand Avenue in the vicinity of Northern Parkway and passed two unknown males, Nassau County Police said. The two began to follow the victim and told him to stop multiple times, according to police. The victim was then grabbed from behind and struck with a baseball bat, said police.…
