Police: Man beaten in Maserati dispute
A Wheatley Heights man who used a fire extinguisher to beat a former co-worker has been arrested on an assault charge, Nassau County police said Thursday.
Police arrested Robert Baker, 28, of 54 Brown Blvd., on a charge of second-degree assault at 2 a.m. after he was released from the Suffolk County jail, where he was being held on an unrelated charge.
On Jan. 2, Baker went to his former workplace, an automobile-related business in Massapequa, where he accused the victim, 51, of spraying the contents of a fire extinguisher into the grille and tail pipes of his 2006 Maserati, police said.
Baker then picked up a fire extinguisher and began to "strike the victim multiple times about the head and face," police said.
Baker left the scene, and the victim was taken to a hospital, where he was treated for lacerations and contusions.
He is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday at First District Court in Hempstead.
'Democrats say this is a misuse of taxpayer funds' Nassau Republicans awarded over $1 million in taxpayer-funded legal contracts to the one-man law firm of Sheharyar Ali, a longtime GOP ally. Ali's father is an adviser to Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman. NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa and Newsday Nassau County politics reporter Bahar Ostadan have the story.
'Democrats say this is a misuse of taxpayer funds' Nassau Republicans awarded over $1 million in taxpayer-funded legal contracts to the one-man law firm of Sheharyar Ali, a longtime GOP ally. Ali's father is an adviser to Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman. NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa and Newsday Nassau County politics reporter Bahar Ostadan have the story.
