Crime & Safety
N.Y. Parent Arrested at MS Graduation Ceremony
The following information is from the police department. It does not indicate a conviction.
WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NY -- A local parent left his child's eighth grade graduation in handcuffs, according to Mount Pleasant Police Chief Louis Alagno.
The Police Department received a call reporting a disturbance at the moving up ceremony for students at in Pleasantville, N.Y. on Wednesday at approximately 7:50 p.m., Alagno said.
When police responded to the field house where the moving up ceremony was taking place, the chief explained, "There was a confrontation involving several people."
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He said officers reported two women, who had a history of tension with each other, "brushed shoulders" at the ceremony and began arguing.
Others got involved and one man, a 50-year-old Ossining resident, was ultimately arrested.
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"He kicked another male in the groin," Alagno said, "causing him to fall to the ground."
The man is charged with harassment in the second degree, a violation.
He was scheduled to appear in court on Thursday, June 21.
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