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By KEITH GOLDBERG
Times Herald-Record
June 15, 2008
TOWN OF NEWBURGH — A dispute over a missing camera at a wedding reception escalated into a 100-person brawl that left two people with stab wounds Saturday night, police said.
“It just kept going on and on,” said Town of Newburgh police Sgt. Peter Talarico, who was one of about 30 cops to respond to the melee at the Ramada Inn on Route 300, which spilled into the hotel’s parking lot. “It was a wedding party gone bad.”
A woman was stabbed in the leg and a man – the wedding reception’s disc jockey – was stabbed in the back of the neck. Both were treated at the Newburgh campus of St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital and released.
A third man was treated at the hospital’s Cornwall campus after being punched in the face; he was later released.
Talarico says police broke up nearly 30 fights during the free-for-all.
Cops from the town and the City of Newburgh, New Windsor, Montgomery, Walden and state police responded, and Talarico says it took nearly two hours for police to restore order.
“I know that none of them were hotel guests,” said Sweta Gandhi, the hotel’s general manager. “They were guests of the wedding party.”
Police arrested six people – all City of Newburgh residents. Anthony Edwards, 31, was charged with misdemeanor assault; Steven Jones, 29, James Jacobs, 30, Leroy Bailey, 38, and Orlando Gordon, 30, were charged with disorderly conduct, a violation; and Trumaine Carrigan, 31, was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation.
Talarico said there will be no further investigation; no one at the scene was cooperating with police.
Times Herald-Record
June 15, 2008
TOWN OF NEWBURGH — A dispute over a missing camera at a wedding reception escalated into a 100-person brawl that left two people with stab wounds Saturday night, police said.
“It just kept going on and on,” said Town of Newburgh police Sgt. Peter Talarico, who was one of about 30 cops to respond to the melee at the Ramada Inn on Route 300, which spilled into the hotel’s parking lot. “It was a wedding party gone bad.”
A woman was stabbed in the leg and a man – the wedding reception’s disc jockey – was stabbed in the back of the neck. Both were treated at the Newburgh campus of St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital and released.
A third man was treated at the hospital’s Cornwall campus after being punched in the face; he was later released.
Talarico says police broke up nearly 30 fights during the free-for-all.
Cops from the town and the City of Newburgh, New Windsor, Montgomery, Walden and state police responded, and Talarico says it took nearly two hours for police to restore order.
“I know that none of them were hotel guests,” said Sweta Gandhi, the hotel’s general manager. “They were guests of the wedding party.”
Police arrested six people – all City of Newburgh residents. Anthony Edwards, 31, was charged with misdemeanor assault; Steven Jones, 29, James Jacobs, 30, Leroy Bailey, 38, and Orlando Gordon, 30, were charged with disorderly conduct, a violation; and Trumaine Carrigan, 31, was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation.
Talarico said there will be no further investigation; no one at the scene was cooperating with police.
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