{"id":18911,"date":"2025-10-27T20:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/18911\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T20:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:23:07","slug":"beer-bottle-assault-of-woman-outside-local-bar-to-land-staten-island-man-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/18911\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer bottle assault of woman outside local bar to land Staten Island man in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/crime-safety\/\" title=\"Navigate to Crime &amp; Safety\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Safety<\/a>Updated: Oct. 27, 2025, 3:20 p.m.|Published: Oct. 27, 2025, 3:19 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"AOIWZEKJ4FF2JB7OPA3LDBXFHY\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A Tottenville man charged in the bloody assault of his former girlfriend outside a local bar is headed to prison. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CEDIYF27QZAJNE2HJAK2HFUB4I\">Rasim Velaj, 58, of Fisher Avenue in Tottenville, pleaded guilty last week to second-degree attempted assault and aggravated criminal contempt in connection with the April 18 incident outside an establishment on Amboy Road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"OOF2HQ2UFJH4HFSZ64CBXEGSQE\">In exchange for his plea, Velaj is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 17 by Justice Lisa Grey in state Supreme Court, St. George, to four to eight years in prison. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crime &amp; SafetyUpdated: Oct. 27, 2025, 3:20 p.m.|Published: Oct. 27, 2025, 3:19 p.m. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-18911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}