Turncoat Genovese mobster denies lemonade assault charge
The region’s most notorious mafia killer was arrested Sunday and charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon after he allegedly hurled a carton of lemonade at a female relative.
The dispute was over a sick dog, which a witness said Anthony J. Arillotta threatened to kill, according to court records.
Arillotta,
50, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Monday in Springfield
District Court. Judge John McKenna set his bail at $500.
Assistant District Attorney Tyson Fung
asked the judge to set bail at $2,500 cash, saying Arillotta, of
Springfield, was on federal probation.
Arillotta
was the federal government’s star witness in two separate mob murder
trials in New York City in 2011 and 2012. He began cooperating with law
enforcement shortly after his 2010 arrest, according to court filings
and testimony.
In 2010 he pleaded
guilty to the 2003 murders of former mentor Adolfo “Big Al” Bruno and
his former brother-in-law, Gary Westerman, and the attempted murder of a
New York union boss. He served an eight-year prison sentence and opted
out of witness protection. Sources said he returned to Springfield in the spring of 2017.
At
his arraignment Monday, McKenna set Sept. 25 as a “clarification of
counsel” date, saying Arillotta does not qualify for a court-appointed
lawyer. Kevin Riva, a private practice bar advocate who was representing
multiple defendants in district court Monday, represented Arillotta at
the arraignment only.
Riva said Arillotta was working full time, and that a family member was at court to post bail.
According
to Riva’s account of the incident, Arillotta is allergic to dogs; a
family member left a sick dog at the home, and he wanted it removed.
A report on the arrest by Springfield
police officer Brendan Linnehan said officers spoke with Arillotta’s
son, who told them Arillotta had threatened to kill the dog, and that he
then called a female relative, who arrived at the home with the victim.
Arillotta and the victim got into an argument, “both screaming and
calling each other various names,” the report said.
Arillotta
“picked up a full carton of Lemonade” and threw it at the victim during
the argument, Linnehan wrote. The victim was struck in the leg but did
not suffer any visible injuries, the report said. She declined medical
treatment.
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