Daily Archives: June 16, 2009
Eddie Canary, Hoboken basketball star charged with robbery
Eddie Canary, a junior at Hoboken High School and First Team All-County forward for the Hoboken Red Wings was charged with robbery and two counts of inflicting bodily injury and more charges may be on the way as there were two different alleged robberies.
With the first one, the victim was approached by a group of men. One man allegedly took $15 out of the victim’s hand. Afterwards, someone reported that Canary then assaulted the victim leaving him knocked out with a broken collar bone. The victim later learned that this wallet was stolen.
With the second case, the police were looking for Canary a short while affter the first robbery. When they caught up to him, they allegedly found him and assaulting another man. He tried to run off but was caught. While it doesn’t seem like anything was stolen, the State may charge him with attempted robbery based upon the first case.
Unless an attorney can pull of some amazing work, it looks like his basketball career is over. I’ve had worse and kept my clients out of prison. Robbery cases are weird like that, at least for me. They are very serious but great deals can be worked out.
Story is here.
Anthony Iazzetta, Edison high school teacher charged with sexual assault
Anthony Iazzetta, a mathematics teacher at Edison High School was arrested charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old female student. Lucky for him, he is 26 and not an older guy. Thus, a jury would be hard pressed to get too upset over a 17 year old having a relationship with a 26 year old. Of course, the case is still serious.
He is charged with with one count each of sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child. There is no indication of what evidence they have, but from my own experience, I expect that he made a statement admitting to the relationship. He is facing prison time, Megan’s law and parole supervision for life. I don’t think I would have too much of an issue getting prison time off the table. Keeping him off Megan’s law and PSL requires much more work. Hopefully he gets a good attorney, but I think he would get a union attorney like most teachers do.
Story is here.
East Orange grocery store owners charged with holding rooster fights
Pedro H. Torres, 48; Flerida Torres, 49, and their 19-year-old son, Pedro Jr., owners and operators of the Martinez 1-Stop Grocery store in East Orange are each charged with 15 counts of illegal animal fighting and possessing fighting roosters that were found in the store basement on Sunday morning. Police stumbled upon the birds after responding to a break in.
It looks like all three people will need their own attorney as Pedro Sr has told the press that the roosters belong to his son. Pedro Sr has a prior from several years ago for the same type of charge.
This is actually a rare crime that almost no one is ever charged with. Although jail time is possible, most probably just pay a small fine. As powerful as some animal rights groups are, it seems like they have been unable to convince law makers to make these charges more serious.
Story is here.
Tonacchio Law LC 