SALEM — One of the men involved in a stabbing of a man outside the Newburyport YWCA in 2005 has pleaded guilty and will serve his sentence concurrently with one he is already serving in a federal prison in Nevada.
Nicholas Pucci, 28, is currently serving a sentence for felony possession of a firearm.
In October 2005, Las Vegas police raided Pucci's apartment on a warrant out of Newburyport and found a .45-caliber handgun, according to court documents. Pucci was charged with being a felon in possession of a handgun and pleaded guilty, according to court documents.
In October 2007 he was sentenced to 46 months in prison with a credit for time already served, making the sentence roughly four years.
He was then sent to Massachusetts to face the Newburyport charges.
He recently appeared in Salem Superior Court on the charge of assault and battery. Judge David Lowy sentenced Pucci to one year to be served concurrently with the federal sentence he is now serving.
In addition to Pucci, Shane Gillingham, 24, 23B Elm St., Salisbury, and Kenneth Langmaid, 24, 7 Short Lane, Salisbury, were charged with stabbing a Newburyport man in the lower back. Langmaid was sentenced to four to five years in prison for two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and one count of assault and battery.
U.S. marshals and state police helped to investigate the stabbing, which took place on Middle Street about 4 a.m. The victim was taken to Anna Jaques Hospital and released the next day. Police later found the man's Red Sox baseball cap in front of the Waverly News building and bloodstains around the corner on Center Street.
The victim initially told investigators he did not know whom his attackers were. Because those allegedly involved in the stabbing would not talk to police, the case was brought to a grand jury, resulting in the first charges filed against Gillingham.
Gillingham pleaded guilty in June 2007 in Lawrence Superior Court to charges of perjury and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and was sentenced to serve 21รขÑ2 years in the house of correction with three years' probation to follow.
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