Couldn't happen to a nicer guy...LOL!!
Sorry for his long-suffering wife though...
Bill
http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2001/02/08/carollo/index.html
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Miami mayor jailed for allegedly beating wife
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By Rachel La Corte
Feb. 8, 2001 | MIAMI (AP) -- Mayor Joe Carollo was charged with battery and
arrested Wednesday for allegedly hitting his wife in the head with a teapot.
Maria Ledon Carollo, 42, suffered a golf ball-size lump and bruise on the
side of her head, according to police.
Carollo, 45, was denied an emergency bond hearing on the misdemeanor charge
and was to wait for Thursday's hearing in jail.
"I see no reason to treat Mr. Carollo differently than anyone else," said
Circuit Judge Mark King Leban.
If convicted, Carollo is unlikely to face the maximum penalty of a year in
jail because he has no prior record, said spokesman Ed Griffith of the
Miami-Dade County State Attorney's Office.
"This could go into a diversion program, with counseling and anger control
classes to avoid any escalation of violence at any time in the future,"
Griffith said.
Carollo had two scratches on his neck, but his wife was not charged because
he was the aggressor, Lt. Bill Schwartz said.
Schwartz said Carollo threw a terra-cotta teapot at his wife.
The incident came three months after Maria Carollo announced that she was
seeking a divorce from her husband of 15 years. In court papers, she said
that there was "no hope for a meaningful reconciliation."
Police went to the couple's home after getting a 911 call from one of the
couple's daughters. The mayor refused to give a statement to police.
Jay Rhodes, a spokesman for the mayor, declined comment. "It's strictly a
personal matter and it's business as usual here," he said.
Schwartz said that initially Maria Carollo wanted to press charges against
her husband but later changed her mind. Police decide whether to press
charges in domestic disputes.
The couple have two daughters, ages 10 and 12.
Carollo was first elected mayor in 1996 and defeated by Xavier Suarez in
1997. But in March 1998, Carollo was reinstated by courts after widespread
voter fraud was uncovered.
Carollo has said he will not run for re-election in November.
