Steve Lieberman

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Nyack man gets 9 1/2 years for gang assault

A 26-year-old Central Nyack man with a previous assault conviction faces spending 9 1/2 years in state prison for brutally beating another man with others in Nyack.

Harrison Whitehead punched another man in the face as the victim spoke with a woman and two of her friends in April. Six others then joined in the beat-down.

The victim suffered a broken jaw, requiring surgery and seven weeks of recuperation, Rockland District Attorney Thomas Zugibe said. Senior Assistant District Attorney Janine Kovacs and Assistant District Attorney Michael Dugandzic prosecuted the case.

Supreme Court Justice William Kelly sentenced Whitehead as a repeat violent felony offender for second-degree gang assault. The sentence included five years post-release supervision.

Whitehead had second-degree assault conviction from January 2008.

Whitehead was 19 when he assaulted an off-duty New York City police officer with a glass bottle while another person punched the officer on Main Street in Nyack. The off-duty officer required 22 stitches.

Days Inn worker gets prison for burglary

Hector Ixcopal was sentenced Wednesday State Supreme Court Justice William A. Kelly to 1 to 3 years in state prison for third-degree burglary.

Ixcopal, 39, of 367 W. Route 59 in Nanuet entered a room at the Day's Inn in Nanuet on Jan. 27 and made sexual contact with a woman sleeping on a bed, District Attorney Thomas Zugibe said in a news release. He was a maintenance worker and lived at the hotel with a master key to all rooms.

Homeless man gets 7 years for robbery attempt

Ignacio A. Molina, 28, who is homeless, was sentenced Wednesday by New York State Supreme Court Justice William A. Kelly to seven years in state prison and five years post release supervision after pleading guilty to second-degree attempted robbery.

District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe stated that on Feb. 18 at 1:15 a.m. Molina grabbed a person's cell phone from his hands at a bus shelter on Route 202 in Garnerville. The man resisted and Molina drew a knife.

Sloatsburg man gets a year for burglary try

Jonathan Burrell, 33, of 9 Birch Road, Sloatsburg, was sentenced to a year in the county jail by County Court Charles Apotheker on Monday after pleading guilty to third-degree attempted burglary.

District Attorney, Thomas P. Zugibe stated that between Aug. 16, 2013 and Aug. 17, 2013, in Suffern, Burrell defendant entered a business with the intent to commit a larceny.