FROM: HOLLEY CARNRIGHT
DATE: APRIL 7, 2017
RE: PRESS RELEASE - DISTRICT ATTORNEY D. HOLLEY CARNRIGHT ANNOUNCES - HURLEY MAN PLEADS TO DOMESTIC INCIDENT
DANIEL CANCELLARO of 232 Dewitt Mills Road, Hurley, pled guilty Thursday, April 6, 2017, in Ulster County Court before County Court Judge Donald A. Williams, to Aggravated Family Offense in the first degree. Cancellaro was arrested September 15, 2016 after his live in girlfriend reported to Kingston State Police Officers that the defendant had broken her cellphone and strangled her.
The defendant was previously convicted in 2009 for the charge of Assault in the Second Degree involving his then girlfriend. He received a sentence of seven years in prison and five years post-release supervision for that offense and was on parole supervision when he committed the offense.
Sentencing is scheduled for June 8, 2017. Any sentence Cancellaro receives will run consecutively with the defendant’s current parole violation.
The defendant was represented by Jeremiah Flaherty, Esq. of Kingston, New York. The case was prosecuted by Sr. Assistant District Attorney, Joey Drillings.