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Mailman delivers.(The Goodness Of America)
On the afternoon of February 5 in Stratford, Connecticut, police officer Michael VanGrowski was dispatched on what he assumed would be a routine call: Someone had allegedly tried to have a phony prescription filled at a local drugstore.
Arriving at the store, he tried to question the suspect who, he remembers, "just walked right past me like I wasn't even there." The officer grabbed the man, Frank Altieri, and asked to see some identification. "He said he had it in his car, and we went outside," VanGrowski recalled for the March 11 Stratford Star, but as they walked through the parking lot, Altieri pulled free and began to run. After a brief foot pursuit, VanGrowski tackled him in a snowbank and they began wrestling and punching each other.
The 6' 4", 240-pound Altieri pinned the smaller VanGrowski against the snowbank, then tried to grab the lawman's handgun. "He got the safety snap off the holster and was tugging on it," VanGrowski told the Star. "I was scared for my life. I felt for sure if he got my gun, he was going to shoot me with it. He told me several times 'I'm ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Durkin, Duff September 28, 2001 700+ words
...season, was convicted of second-degree assault in Prince George's County circuit...Smith was found not guilty of second-degree assault and cleared of all charges. Both were...robbery and conspiracy to commit second-degree assault. Moye-Moore's sentencing hearing...
- Why photographer's fifth-degree assault arrest made it into print.(NEWS)
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Gelfand, Lou February 23, 1997 700+ words
...said Amos was charged with fifth-degree assault and given a date for a court hearing...newspaper does not routinely report fifth-degree assault citations. That became the focus of...newspaper does not routinely report fifth-degree assault citations. But because of Rodman...
- Nursing assistant guilty of second degree assault of an 88-year-old resident.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire December 10, 2001 700+ words
...Nursing assistant guilty of second degree assault of an 88-year-old resident (C...by a Baltimore City jury of second degree assault of a vulnerable adult. Ritch, 44...Baltimore, was convicted of second degree assault for spraying incontinent care foam...
- A Staten Island man, one Esteban Palafox, has been charged with second-degree...
- Magazine article from: National Review May 31, 2004 700+ words
* A Staten Island man, one Esteban Palafox, has been charged with second-degree assault, a Class D violent felony, a third-degree assault, criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and, for good measure, endangering...
- Oil incident leads jury to guilty verdict.(Crime)(Angel Shuntaria Morris is...
- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) May 28, 2005 700+ words
...convicting a Eugene woman of second-degree assault for pouring scalding cooking oil on...originally was charged with first-degree assault, which carries a 7 1/2 -year sentence...of the lesser crime. The second-degree assault conviction could mean jurors found...
- DAVID GETS MAXIMUM 10-YEAR TERM CONVICTED OF 2ND-DEGREE ASSAULT OF DISABLED...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Fisher, David August 11, 2001 700+ words
...law. David, 61 ((age)), was convicted of second-degree assault in May, more than four years after police and social workers...with the evidence forced prosecutors to ask for a second-degree assault conviction, rather than the more serious but difficult...
- Motorist convicted in Lakeville road-rage case; Jurors found the Rosemount man...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Chanen, David Adams, Jim November 17, 2001 700+ words
...Writers RSEC: + A Rosemount man was convicted of second-degree assault but was acquitted of a more serious charge Friday in the...acquitted of both counts because the first- and second-degree assault charges he faced differed only in severity and the only...