Mr Gently Benevolent
06-06-2005, 06:04 AM
My mate in LI was telling about this story last night on the phone, this is one crazy guy.
At Long Island Home, Police Find Abuse Claim, and 2 leopards By VIVIAN S. TOY and JULIA C. MEAD
Published: May 31, 2005
Residents along Caledonia Road in Dix Hills had complained to Huntington, N.Y., officials about their neighbor, Anthony Barone, for years.
Neighbors said the Barone house in the Long Island hamlet had stood out for all the wrong reasons in this quiet suburb of homes that sell for as much as $1 million. He had enclosed his two-acre property with an eight-foot-high chain-link fence. The front of the house was often strewn with garbage and rubble, they complained. And large dogs would bark fiercely from behind the fence.
But the neighbors were nonetheless stunned to learn that Mr. Barone had been arrested Sunday and charged with beating his wife and chaining her to a staircase banister and keeping two 50-pound leopard cubs in the home's basement.
Mr. Barone, 34, the owner of Tony's Tattoos Ink in Lynbrook, was arraigned on charges of assault, unlawful imprisonment, and reckless endangerment for allowing the leopards to come in contact with his four children, ages 2, 4, 7 and 8.
The police said he was being held at the Suffolk County Jail yesterday in $500,000 cash bail or $1 million bond. The police did not know if Mr. Barone had legal representation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/31/nyregion/31leopard.html
At Long Island Home, Police Find Abuse Claim, and 2 leopards By VIVIAN S. TOY and JULIA C. MEAD
Published: May 31, 2005
Residents along Caledonia Road in Dix Hills had complained to Huntington, N.Y., officials about their neighbor, Anthony Barone, for years.
Neighbors said the Barone house in the Long Island hamlet had stood out for all the wrong reasons in this quiet suburb of homes that sell for as much as $1 million. He had enclosed his two-acre property with an eight-foot-high chain-link fence. The front of the house was often strewn with garbage and rubble, they complained. And large dogs would bark fiercely from behind the fence.
But the neighbors were nonetheless stunned to learn that Mr. Barone had been arrested Sunday and charged with beating his wife and chaining her to a staircase banister and keeping two 50-pound leopard cubs in the home's basement.
Mr. Barone, 34, the owner of Tony's Tattoos Ink in Lynbrook, was arraigned on charges of assault, unlawful imprisonment, and reckless endangerment for allowing the leopards to come in contact with his four children, ages 2, 4, 7 and 8.
The police said he was being held at the Suffolk County Jail yesterday in $500,000 cash bail or $1 million bond. The police did not know if Mr. Barone had legal representation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/31/nyregion/31leopard.html