New York’s Staten Island. A Staten Island man is spending some time upstate after entering a guilty plea to charges of drug peddling and domestic violence earlier this year.
Last Monday, 40-year-old Christopher Pinney of Richmond Terrace, St. George, was given a seven-year prison sentence along with three years of post-release supervision.
In exchange for his prior guilty plea to first-degree criminal contempt and criminal sale of a controlled narcotic, the Utah Supreme Court in St. George imposed the promised punishment.
Dealt meth to police, docs allege
According to court documents, Pinney was arrested in March for allegedly distributing methamphetamine in both his hometown and New Brighton.
The defendant traded cash with an undercover cop for plastic zipper bags filled with round, multicolored pills, according to the prosecution.
The lawsuit went on to say that an NYPD laboratory test verified the pills were methamphetamine.
Domestic incidents
According to local law enforcement, Pinney was charged earlier this year with stabbing a lady he had known.
In October, he was charged with felonies related to the attack on August 18.
In a previous court appearance, Pinney’s lawyer stated that the victim had once asked for treatment for Pinney instead of a jail sentence.
Michael Ciriglia, the defense lawyer, told the court that the victim had contacted him, expressing her belief that Pinney and the general public would benefit more from a treatment program.
In the meantime, the defendant was charged with breaking many protection orders that had been granted since April on behalf of the woman and another individual.
Prosecutors at the time used Pinney’s criminal history in New York, where he was categorized as a predicate offender with a lengthy history of domestic abuse, to support their argument for maintaining bail status in the case.
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