Crime & Safety

Accused Cemetery Robber's Plea Rejected By Judge

Anthony Giamoni had been prepared to plead guilty, but judge worries his deal is too lenient.

A Northampton County judge has rejected a plea deal for an Easton man accused of robbing and assaulting a woman in the city cemetery.

That's according to the Morning Call, which says Judge Paula Roscioli vetoed a deal for Anthony Giamoni out of concerns that it was too lenient.

Giamoni, 29, of the 100 block of S. 12th Street, was charged in July with robbery, theft and simple assault. 

The plea deal would have had him plead to theft and simple assault, with prosecutors dropping the more serious robbery charge.

Police say Giamoni attacked an Easton woman in the city cemetery at N. Seventh Street in July. 

The woman testified in August that she and her son had been at the cemetery that day for a vigil with friends. When that ended, she said, she and her son stopped to visit her mother's grave. 

That's when Giamoni allegedly attacked her, punching and kicking the woman and pushing her son to the ground.

He got away with $600, which the woman said she'd gotten from the bank to pay her rent and to buy her son new shoes.

Giamoni punched the woman in the head, she testified, causing the grand mal seizures she'd suffered from to return. She also suffered two fractured ribs.

"It hurt to breathe," she testified. "Just pure pain."


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