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[NY] State Senator [Monserrate] is indicted in stabbing
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| Last Edited | Monsieur Mar 23, 2009 12:24pm |
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| News Date | Monday, March 23, 2009 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A Queens grand jury on Monday handed up a felony assault indictment against State Senator Hiram Monserrate, charging that he stabbed his girlfriend last December with a drinking glass, leaving a gash that required 20 stitches to close, prosecutors announced.
The six-count indictment charges Mr. Monserrate, 41, a Democrat, with three counts of second-degree assault, a D felony, in the episode on Dec. 19, when he was a city councilman waiting to be sworn in to the Senate, to which he was elected in November.
The charges, according to a press release [pdf] from the office of the Queens district attorney, Richard A. Brown, announcing the indictment, also include three counts of third-degree assault, a misdemeanor.
Mr. Monseratte, who was arrested hours after the episode, denied assaulting the woman, Karla Giraldo, and said he had fallen while bringing her a glass of water in his Jackson Heights apartment. He was released on $5,000 bail and, over the objections of some fellow senators, was sworn in Jan. 7. |
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