New Berlin man beaten with crowbar confronts assailant
NORWICH – One of three men charged with beating a New Berlin man with a crowbar after breaking in to his home in November was reduced to tears while apologizing. “I’m sorry,” he offered.
“I don’t accept your apology. You put holes in my head,” Michael “Toby” Tubiolo said.
Aaron J. Crawford, formerly of 181 Steamsaw Mill Road in North Norwich, was sentenced to a determinate 8 year state prison sentence Friday morning. Before the sentencing, Tubiolo showed the court a letter of apology Crawford sent him.
“He said in that letter that he tried to help me. If he’s the one that stuck his finger in the hole in my head, that’s how he helped me,” the New Berlin man said.
Along with his Norwich co-defendants, Edward A. Steins and Chad L. VanDusen, Crawford broke into Tubiolo’s 5115 state Route 8 home shortly after midnight on Nov. 30. In April, Steins gave detail to what happened during the break-in.
“We walked in, beat him with a crowbar, stole his stuff and left,” the co-defendant said. “They started beating him with a crowbar ... I had a stick.”
At the April appearance, Steins admitted that the trio handcuffed Tubiolo to his bed before going through his home. At a separate felony hearing in December, a 22-year-old woman who was friends with Tubiolo’s assailants told District Attorney Joseph A. McBride what they said to her about hitting Tubiolo.
“It was something along the lines of ‘Loving the first crack,’” she said.
During Friday’s sentencing, Crawford tried in vain to read a statement to the court because he was too overcome with emotion. His attorney, Frank B. Revoir Jr., read it for him, telling how his client’s concern shifted from the robbery to his victim’s well-being after Crawford saw blood pouring from Tubiolo’s head.
“I took a sheet and wrapped it up and told him to hold it against his head,” the statement said. “I was led to believe that no one was going to be there.”
Judge Michael Daley told Crawford that his age, 21 when arrested, and lack of prior convictions kept him from a longer prison sentence. “You easily could have spent the rest of your life in prison,” he said.
After sentencing, Crawford told the judge that he sent a letter to the court requesting a furlough weeks earlier but did not get a response. The court did not have a copy of the letter, but the district attorney’s office did and Daley read that copy. With objection from Assistant District Attorney James P. Chamberlain, Daley released the defendant until Friday, when he is to appear in County Court again.
“I don’t accept your apology. You put holes in my head,” Michael “Toby” Tubiolo said.
Aaron J. Crawford, formerly of 181 Steamsaw Mill Road in North Norwich, was sentenced to a determinate 8 year state prison sentence Friday morning. Before the sentencing, Tubiolo showed the court a letter of apology Crawford sent him.
“He said in that letter that he tried to help me. If he’s the one that stuck his finger in the hole in my head, that’s how he helped me,” the New Berlin man said.
Along with his Norwich co-defendants, Edward A. Steins and Chad L. VanDusen, Crawford broke into Tubiolo’s 5115 state Route 8 home shortly after midnight on Nov. 30. In April, Steins gave detail to what happened during the break-in.
“We walked in, beat him with a crowbar, stole his stuff and left,” the co-defendant said. “They started beating him with a crowbar ... I had a stick.”
At the April appearance, Steins admitted that the trio handcuffed Tubiolo to his bed before going through his home. At a separate felony hearing in December, a 22-year-old woman who was friends with Tubiolo’s assailants told District Attorney Joseph A. McBride what they said to her about hitting Tubiolo.
“It was something along the lines of ‘Loving the first crack,’” she said.
During Friday’s sentencing, Crawford tried in vain to read a statement to the court because he was too overcome with emotion. His attorney, Frank B. Revoir Jr., read it for him, telling how his client’s concern shifted from the robbery to his victim’s well-being after Crawford saw blood pouring from Tubiolo’s head.
“I took a sheet and wrapped it up and told him to hold it against his head,” the statement said. “I was led to believe that no one was going to be there.”
Judge Michael Daley told Crawford that his age, 21 when arrested, and lack of prior convictions kept him from a longer prison sentence. “You easily could have spent the rest of your life in prison,” he said.
After sentencing, Crawford told the judge that he sent a letter to the court requesting a furlough weeks earlier but did not get a response. The court did not have a copy of the letter, but the district attorney’s office did and Daley read that copy. With objection from Assistant District Attorney James P. Chamberlain, Daley released the defendant until Friday, when he is to appear in County Court again.
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