Man Who Pled Guilty In Braintree Stabbing Sentenced To Seven Years

BRAINTREE, MA - An East Bridgewater man who pled guilty to four counts arising from a stabbing at a Braintree home in 2018 was sentenced to seven years in prison with three years probation on March 18.

Jordan Tabbi-Manning, 26, of East Bridgewater, pled guilty in Norfolk County Superior Court in Dedham on March 18 on two counts of armed assault to murder and two counts of aggravated assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

Two women also were arrested at the time of the November 2018 incident, which took place at a home on Grove Street. Chelsea Taylor, 24, of Holbrook and Molly Crowley, 20, of Brockton, were indicted and charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and two counts of assault and battery. Taylor also faced a second assault with a dangerous weapon charge.

However, according to the Norfolk County District Attorney's office, the charges against the two female defendants were dropped.

"We had to nolle prosequi the charges against the two co-defendants, Taylor and Crowley, after the alleged victim in their case died in Florida in 2019, making it impossible to prosecute the assault charges," said David Traub, a spokesperson for the DA's office.

A fifth charge also was dropped against Tabbi-Manning because that person died.

The Commonwealth, represented by prosecutor Adam Lally, had asked for a five- to seven-year sentence in state prison starting at the date of the plea, even though the defendant is already serving a sentence out of Plymouth Superior Court. The defense attorney, Martin Leppo, asked for three to five years concurrent with the Plymouth sentence.

Judge Douglas Wilkins sentenced Tabbi-Manning to seven years on the four charges but started it on the date of arrest on April 16, 2019, nearly three years into the sentence.

The suspects were arrested after police said officers witnessed a fight between two women and saw two men suffering from stab wounds. According to police, another suspect, Tabbi-Martin, ran into the woods and was found while paramedics cared for the men who had been stabbed. Police said the victims, a 50-year-old man and a 23-year-old man, suffered from non-life-threatening injuries at that time.

In an unrelated case in 2014, Tabbi-Manning, who lived in Holbrook at that time, was arrested in a Whitman woods after cyber taunting police, who tracked him down the next day. In that case, Tabbi-Manning was wanted on assault to murder and drug charges. Cyber taunting was added after Tabbi-Manning used the handle "Tabbi" on an anonymous tip line to tell Whitman police they would not be able to find him.

Police homed in on Tabbi-Manning just one day later, pulling him out of the trunk of a car after a three-hour search through the Whitman woods.

“Sometimes you’ve got to be careful what you wish for,” Whitman Police Chief Scott Benton said in a news article.