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LONG BRANCH - A township man who stabbed two victims with a kitchen knife in 2017 was sentenced to eight years in prison Thursday.
Dennismar Andrade, 30, was arrested in February 2017. He allegedly stabbed a sleeping woman and a male victim four days earlier, according to a criminal complaint.
Andrade pleaded guilty to second degree aggravated assault before Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Lourdes Lucas.
He is also subject to three years of parole supervision and is required to serve at least 85% of his sentence in accordance with the No Early Release Act.
The criminal complaint in 2017 alleged he stabbed the woman in the neck and near her ear while she was sleeping in addition to her left thumb when she was later awake and trying to protect her face. It also alleged he stabbed the male victim in the neck before looking through his pants pockets.
Man who had standoff with police after stabbing woman gets 8 years in prison
Posted Apr 29, 2021
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A man who barricaded himself inside a Long Branch house after stabbing a sleeping woman in her neck was sentenced to eight years in prison on Thursday.
Dennismar Andrade, 30, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and obstructing the administration of law after he used a kitchen knife to stab a woman sleeping in a bed and a man inside a Long Branch residence on the morning of February 18, 2017.
In court on Thursday, a judge said Andrade was suffering from auditory hallucinations at the time of the stabbings, but two evaluators determined his condition “did not rise to the defense of insanity.” The judge said both victims continue to suffer from their injuries.