Two plead guilty in crossing guard attack
A man and woman accused in an attack on a 64-year-old school crossing guard pleaded guilty Tuesday to battery charges.
Adam Kondrat was driving about 50 mph and cutting off other vehicles in a school zone in October near Gehring Elementary School, at Maryland Parkway near Silverado Ranch Boulevard, when a crossing guard forced him to stop, according to his arrest report.
Kondrat, 21, got out of his car and attacked the guard, Dano McKay, kicking and punching him until he fell to the ground and dropped his stop sign, a witness told police.
Kondrat’s girlfriend, 23-year-old Sabrina J. Torres, then picked up the stop sign and handed it to Kondrat, witnesses told police. Kondrat looked like he was going to hit McKay with the sign when a retired police sergeant intervened.
On Tuesday, Kondrat pleaded guilty to two counts of battery with substantial bodily harm and one count of battery on a protected person. Torres pleaded guilty to one count of battery with substantial bodily harm.
The two are being held on $200,000 bail pending an April sentencing. Each count of battery with substantial bodily harm carries a possible sentence of one to five years in prison, while the charge of battery on a protected person carries a maximum sentence of 364 days in jail.
Kondrat’s defense lawyer Marty Hart said Kondrat was “very sorry for what happened… and he’s trying to take responsibility for his actions.”
Carmine Colucci, who represents Torres, said she tried to “prevent officer Gibbs from choking out Mr. Kondrat.”
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