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Bieber record exec charged with assault in mall visit
Quick ReadPolice said exec failed to send out a Twitter message to disperse a Roosevelt Field crowd looking to see Justin Bieber.
Photo credit: Karen Wiles Stabile | James A. Roppo, left, a senior vice president of Island Def Jam Records, leaves First District Court in Hempstead after his arraignment. (Nov. 21, 2009)
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A record company executive who police said obstructed crowd control at Roosevelt Field mall during an album signing that drew 3,000 people Friday was charged with assault Saturday, after police said his failure to send out a Twitter message to disperse the crowd resulted in an officer receiving minor injuries.
James A. Roppo, 44, of Hoboken, N.J., had been charged Friday with endangering the...
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