Monday, June 27, 2005
D.A. BROWN: QUEENS MAN SENTENCED TO FOUR AND ONE-HALF YEARS IN PRISON FOR KNIFE ASSAULT ON WIFE’S EX-BOYFRIEND
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown today announced that a Queens man has been sentenced to four and one-half years in prison for assaulting his wife’s ex-boyfriend in June 2004 by stabbing him in the abdomen.
District Attorney Brown said, “The defendant has now been punished for attacking the victim with a knife and nearly causing the victim to bleed to death. The sentence imposed by the court is more than warranted.”
District Attorney Brown identified the defendant as Salvatore Acquista, 22, formerly of 149-31 15th Drive in Whitestone, Queens, a construction worker/mortgage broker. The defendant was convicted on June 2, 2005 of Assault in the Second Degree before Supreme Court Justice Richard L. Buchter who imposed today’s determinate sentence of four and one-half years in prison.
The District Attorney said that according to trial testimony on June 18, 2004 about 4:15 p.m. on 149th and 32nd Avenues in Whitestone, Queens the defendant cut off a vehicle driven by the victim, Michael Iuliano, 27. Both the defendant and the victim exited their vehicles and the defendant stabbed the victim once in the left side, piercing an abdominal artery and causing extensive and nearly fatal blood loss.
Assistant District Attorney Patricia A. Malloy of the District Attorney's Kew Gardens I Trial Bureau prosecuted the case under the supervision of Assistant District Attorneys Robert J. Masters, Bureau Chief, Therese M. Lendino and Robin D. Leopold, Deputy Bureau Chiefs, and the overall supervision of Senior Executive Assistant District Attorney for Trials James C. Quinn and Deputy Executive Assistant District Attorney for Trials John H. Larsen.