Two teens plead not guilty in Patchogue hate crime case
Photo credit: James Carbone | Curt Hatton, 19, left, and Matthew J. Mont, 16, leave the Suffolk Fifth Precinct in Patchogue for arraignment in Central Islip Criminal Court on charges of attacking a Hispanic man on Division Street in Patchogue on Aug. 15. (August 26, 2009) Click here to read more about this case
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Patchogue hate-crime suspects
Two Suffolk teenagers accused of beating an Ecuadorean man in Patchogue, just steps from where his countryman Marcelo Lucero was stabbed to death late last year, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a felony hate crime.
Curt J. Hatton, 19, of Islip, and Matthew J. Mont, 16, of Patchogue, were arrested Tuesday and appeared at separate arraignments in First District Court in Central Islip, where...
