Results tagged “domesticdispute”

An NYPD officer has been suspended without pay after being charged with roughing up his girlfriend earlier this week. 24-year-old Roberto Pagan was arraigned yesterday after the altercation took place Wednesday night at Hylan Boulevard and Tysens Lane in the New Dorp section of Staten Island. A source tells the SI Advance that at around 8:30, Pagan and his girlfriend "exchanged heated words over what he was texting" before he then allegedly began choking her and punched her in the eye. Pagan is relatively new to the force, having been on for around 18 months. At his arraignment for misdemeanor charges of assault and attempted assault, a judge ordered that the Graniteville native turn over all firearms—including his his police weapon. His girlfriend was treated for bruises at Staten Island Hospital before being released

A teenager in The Bronx yesterday was arrested after stabbing his three younger siblings because he was "seeing demons" and was "zombielike." 17-year-old Nelson Santos was at home in his family's Claremont apartment when he picked up a butcher knife and attacked his two brothers Miguel and James, ages 13 and 6, and his 9-year-old sister Ashley. Santos's mother and a neighbor fetched by one of the brothers eventually wrestled the teenager down and took the knife from him before cops arrested him and took him into psychiatric care. Neighbors told the Daily News that Santos practiced black magic and John Flores, the 19-year-old man who intervened, told reporters, "He said the world was going to end so he had to kill his brothers and sister." Ashley Santos only suffered superficial wounds and 13-year-old Miguel is in stable condition after being stabbed in the chest five times. The youngest brother, James, is in critical condition at Columbia-Pres after being stabbed in the back.

A doctor who practiced in The Bronx was the only one of four victims to survive her estranged husband's shooting rampage yesterday at their former home on Long Island. 40-year-old family practitioner Haleh Mohseni is in stable condition and expected to live after her husband, 49-year-old Mohamed Shojaeifardshowed, showed up at the house his wife was moving out of and fatally shot Mohseni's mother, the couple's daughter and then killed himself. The murder-suicide rocked the quiet town of Roslyn, with the police commissioner saying, "It's very unusual that we have three, possibly four people shot dead."

Officer Rodney Lewis and his partner Mark Bublin were responding to a domestic dispute in Ridgewood early Sunday morning when a suspect's handgun accidentally discharged during a scuffle, wounding Lewis under his left arm. According to WABC, it all started around 11 p.m. Saturday during a family party, when Marcello Campana, who identifies herself as a woman named Hazel, got into an argument with her reportedly violent boyfriend Carlos.

A police officer is in stable condition after being shot by a stray bullet while responding to a domestic dispute call in Ridgewood early this morning. According to NY1, Officer Rodney Lewis was reporting to a call around 5 a.m. of a domestic dispute involving a gun inside a Queens apartment on Menahan Avenue. When cops arrived on the scene, they spotted a bald man who appeared to fit the description of one of the men involved in the altercation. Police noticed a gun in his waistband and apprehended him, only to have the weapon go off and strike the 40-year-old Lewis in the side of the chest. Lewis was rushed to Wyckoff Medical Center while police arrested 33-year-old Edwin Santana, who was wanted for parole violations and is believed to have obtained the gun illegally. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Mayor Bloomberg have already visited Lewis at the hospital where he is recovering and reportedly in good spirits. Bloomberg told reporters, "I joked with him that we had a budget crisis and we wanted him back on the job."

Don Mattingly might not ever find his way into the Cooperstown, but his family is sure guaranteeing their spot in the Hall of Shame. Taylor Mattingly, the 24-year-old son of the beloved Yankee, was arrested in Indiana for allegedly shoving his mother Kim to the ground and spitting in her face. The one-time Yankee draft pick says that he flipped out when his mother sent him a text message insulting him, his girlfriend and his father. A deputy wrote, "Taylor advised he snapped, pushed Kim down and spit on her." He also admits to shattering a patio table, breaking a door and a window and throwing other furniture against the walls of his mother's pool house. Don Mattingly divorced Kim (pictured) in 2007; last year she was arrested for disorderly conduct after drunkenly refusing to leave the former Yankee great's front lawn. She claims that her son became angry after she threatened to turn off the cable at the ranch where Taylor is staying. The Daily News has already dubbed him 'Spitman,' so hopefully there is a goobered up white pinstripe suit Photoshop job not far behind.

Former Yankee Jim Leyritz was arrested once again at his South Florida home, this time charged with domestic battery against his ex-wife. He's accused of dragging Karrie Leyritz out of bed and pushing her to the floor because she wrote a check without his permission. However, like Leyritz's faulty Breathalyzer test in May, the details around the incident sound complicated. Police say Leyritz's ex-wife gave two conflicting reports, the other story being that the slugger punched her in the face twice because they were arguing over child support. Leyritz, awaiting trial for DUI manslaughter, told police that she was drunk (which she admits) and most likely hit herself to set him up because she was angry over being evicted from their house. One of their three children told cops he believed that this probably was the case. But Karrie Leyritz said of her son, "He's constantly hearing his father bad-mouth me. I can't control what my ex-husband says."

A Staten Island teenager is in custody after beating his father within an inch of his life over the weekend. James DeLeo, Jr. was charged with attempted murder after attacking his father so severely that it put James DeLeo, Sr. into a coma and included bashing his father's head in with a shovel. Police say that the son was sent into a rage when his father confronted him about staying out too late (the victim was found by police following the fight at 8:30 a.m. Sunday). The teenager first threatened his father with a knife, knocked him down with a punch to the face, stomped and kicked him until he lost consciousness and finally went outside to get a shovel that he would then bash his father's head in with. A roommate who lived with the two DeLeos in Willowbrook called 911 and the son was quickly arrested after an initial unsubstantiated claim that someone else carried out the attack. The elder DeLeo is currently listed in critical but stable condition. A public defender for the son requested his client receive a psychological evaluation before his next court appearance.

Earlier this morning, police officers wounded a 21-year-old man inside a Bronx apartment. WABC 7 reports, "Police has responded to the apartment after reports that Jiminial was fighting his ex-girlfriend, who was armed with a knife" (the Willis Avenue apartment may have been the ex-girlfriend's). Jiminal was allegedly armed with a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson gun and pointed it at police. When Jiminal refused to drop the gun, police fired 12 times at him. While Jiminal's condition is unknown, it's believed his injuries are non-life-threatening; two police officers were taken to the hospital for treatment of trauma as well.

The Daily Politics' Elizabeth Benjamin reports: "[State] Senator-elect Hirram Monserrate was arrested early this morning after he brought a woman believed to be his girlfriend to Long Island Jewish Hospital with severe lacerations on her face that will require multiple sitches to close, sources confirmed. Monserrate... was detained for questioning and subsequently arrested, according to an NYPD source. The incident occurred at an apartment at 37-20 83rd St. in Jackson Heights, Queens." The Post adds, "the woman's face was cut with a bottle in what investigators believe was a domestic fight." Monserrate, who is a soon-to-be former City Councilman representing Queens, has been in the news recently for being part of the dissident State Senators, the Gang of Four, until he decided to "move forward and not waste one more minute debating politics" by supporting Senator Minority Leader Malcolm Smith.

A Bronx man was shot and killed by the police after he refused to drop a baseball bat. The NYPD had been called to a domestic dispute "involving a weapon" at an apartment building Kingsbridge section of the Bronx. WCBS 2, which reports, "A 40-year-old man who lived at the building refused to drop a bat he was holding, and instead lunged at them." Police fired once, hitting him in the chest, and the man died during surgery at the hospital. Last month, the police fatally shot an emotionally disturbed person who wielded a folding chair; the NYPD later backed the shooting, explaining, "Basically, was there an imminent threat to life or serious injury? That is the defining statement.”

While responding to a woman's call for help in a dispute with her boyfriend, a police officer ultimately fatally shot the man who refused to drop a large knife.