ICYMI: Man Who Critically Stabbed Officer Faces Additional Charge

In case you missed it, here's a story that appeared last week in the Patchogue Patch:

CENTRAL ISLIP, NY — A Centereach man is facing additional charges after authorities said he stabbed and critically injuring a police officer in Patchogue this month.

Jonathan Nunez, 25, is charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, first-degree assault, assault on a police officer, two counts of second-degree assault, third-degree assault, resisting arrest, leaving the scene of an incident resulting in physical injury, reckless driving and operating a motor vehicle while impaired by a drug.

On April 10, Nunez was driving a 1999 Mercedes Benz southbound on South Ocean Avenue in Patchogue when he was seen driving erratically with no headlights on by Suffolk County Fifth Precinct Officer Christopher Racioppo, Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini said Wednesday.

Officer Racioppo activated his emergency lights and tried to pull him over when Nunez fled at a high rate of speed and crashed into a 2004 Nissan at the intersection of South Ocean Avenue and Brook Street, according to the DA.
Nunez got out of the car after the crash and ran away into the yard of a nearby home, the DA said.

He then got into a fight with Racioppo and stabbed him in the leg, severing his femoral artery and a vein.

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