Two men pleaded guilty on Monday to charges stemming from a hate crime assault on a transgender employee of a Sunderland store and the employee’s fiance at the store last year, the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office announced.
Former Northampton resident Warren Martinez, 31, pleaded guilty to two counts of assault and battery with intent to intimidate based on gender identity and sexual orientation causing injury, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, mayhem and breaking and entering into a building during the nighttime in Franklin County Superior Court, the district attorney’s office said in a press release.
Thomas Patnode, 25, also pleaded guilty in Franklin County Superior Court to two counts of assault and battery with intent to intimidate based on gender identity and sexual orientation causing injury and assault by means of a dangerous weapon, the district attorney’s office said.
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