In response, the Sherriff s Office said that the injuries sustained by the deputy were misdiagnosed by the emergency room physician, and that he was still out of work on medical leave as a result of the incident. Sergeant Matos is the victim of a crime, an assault using deadly physical force, and his attacker calling for anyone s resignation is genuinely absurd, the office said.
Last Friday, Presti was charged with unlicensed sale of alcohol and operating an unlicensed bottle club, prosecutors said. He however was not charged for the alleged assault on the sheriff s deputy, the charges for which were dropped.
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Montgomery: The state is getting roughly half as much COVID-19 vaccine as it was expecting based on federal plans announced last year, officials said Friday, meaning it would take more than two years to vaccinate the adult population without improvement. The state has 800 approved vaccination sites and is trying to deliver shots as quickly as it can, but supply issues have been the biggest hindrance to state vaccination efforts, said Dr. Scott Harris, head of the Alabama Department of Public Health. “Every state had the idea that they were going to get much more vaccine than they ultimately got,” he said. “I assume this is related to optimistic projections and the inability of manufacturers to keep up that. … There just wasn’t enough vaccine to go around.” Alabama health officials were expecting to get more th
Staten Island Autonomous Zone Bar Owner Won t Be Prosecuted For Allegedly Driving Into Sheriff s Deputy
arrow Mac s Public House co-owner Danny Presti attends a press conference outside his closed bar in Staten Island in early December. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP/Shutterstock
The co-owner of a Staten Island pub infamous for defying city and state COVID-19 health restrictions has avoided felony charges after he allegedly drove into a sheriff s deputy who was trying to detain him outside his bar on December 6th.
Daniel Presti, 34, faced charges including felony second degree assault causing physical injury to an officer, reckless endangerment, and reckless driving for the incident. But after hearing testimony from Presti, a Staten Island grand jury decided to charge him with only two misdemeanors for allegedly selling alcohol inside the bar, Mac s Public House, without a license.
A bar owner accused of running over a New York City sheriff’s deputy with a car last month will only face criminal charges alleging he served patrons indoors in defiance of state coronavirus restrictions.