Police: LI Soccer Coach - and Yonkers Principal - Threatens Team Parent With Baseball Bat

Written by PAIGE MCATEE (Patch Staff)

A Glen Head resident was arrested Friday for threatening a man with physical violence using a baseball bat on Saturday, May 16, police said.

Robert Riccuiti, 45, of 33 Waverly St., responded to an email from a man whose 6-year-old son was a player on the soccer team coached by Riccuiti, police said.

The 37-year-old man reportedly questioned his son’s playing time and the philosophy of the soccer program and Riccuiti answered the email with foul language and threatened physical violence with a baseball bat, according to police.

Riccuiti, who is the principal of the Vive School in Yonkers, was arrested and charged with second degree aggravated harassment. According to the Yonkers School District, the Vive School offers programs “to English language learners, adults seeking basic education and job training, older teens who left school before graduating high school, senior citizens and the community at large.”

He was scheduled to be arraigned in First District Court in Hempstead on Saturday.

Patch Editor Alfred Branch contributed to this report.

Photo: Robert Riccuiti. Photo credit: Nassau County Police

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