Crime & Safety
Police: Man Charged With Weapons Possession After Accidentally Shooting Family Member
The information was provided by New York State Police and does not indicate a conviction.
State troopers in Southeast arrested a Florida man after he accidentally shot a family member in the elbow, police said.
Joseph Giardina, 69, of Naples, FL, came to Southeast to visit family and brought with him a recently purchased handgun that was not registered in New York State.
Giardina was showing the new handgun to a female family member when it discharged. The woman was taken via ambulance to Danbury Hospital for medical attention.
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Giardina was arraigned before Patterson Town Justice Anthony R. Molé and charged with second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a felony, and second-degree reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor. He was released without bail pending a return to Southeast Town Court in January.
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