Man to serve 10 years in prison over assault
A Watertown teenager who admitted in October that he intentionally struck his ex-girlfriend with a vehicle was sentenced Wednesday in Jefferson County Court to 10 years in state prison for the act.
Jordan M. Reardon, 19, of 420 S. Meadow St., also will have to undergo five years of supervision upon his release from prison and pay $1,724 in restitution for Oct. 9 guilty pleas to first-degree assault and second-degree attempted burglary. He also admitted violating probation.
He admitted at the time of his plea that he hit Cassandra Marsala, then 17, with his vehicle Oct. 30, 2008, on County Route 97 in Lorraine.
He also admitted that he tried to enter the Marsala residence in Watertown without permission Oct. 24, 2008.
Mr. Reardon had faced 14 charges, including second-degree attempted murder, in a grand jury indictment handed up in March.
On the day of the incident in Lorraine, Mr. Reardon was found in Adams suffering from abdominal cuts and was taken to Upstate Medical University, Syracuse.
At an evidence suppression hearing held in June, a state trooper testified that he spoke with Mr. Reardon while in Adams and was told by Mr. Reardon that Miss Marsala had stabbed him in his car, but he did not know where she or the vehicle were. No charges resulted from the injuries he suffered.
Meanwhile, police found Miss Marsala lying along Middle Road in the town of Lorraine. It was alleged in the indictment that she had been left unconscious at the scene, suffering from a severe cut to her head, a broken leg and finger and multiple bruises.
Orders of protection were issued Wednesday on behalf of Miss Marsala and her father, Kris, as well as for a second female.
Mr. Reardon also admitted in October to violating probation. He had been sentenced in County Court in August 2008 to five years' probation after pleading guilty in June 2008 to fifth-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance for selling cocaine in Watertown. He was granted youthful offender status in that case.
He was sentenced Wednesday to a concurrent year in prison for the violation.
