Crime & Safety

Contractors Fight Over Insults at Scarsdale Work Site

Verbal barbs led to an altercation.

SCARSDALE, NY — Two contractors, working on a Scarsdale house, got into a physical altercation after a verbal argument.

Police said one of the men — Jorge Coelho, a mixed martial arts student — was called a “midget” more than once and got into a fight, striking his victim in the face with his heel and choking him, the Daily Voice reported.

The victim sustained a broken blood vessel in an eye and swelling to the eye socket.

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For more details, including the charges leveled at Coelho because of the fight, read the complete Daily Voice article here.

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