Ansonia man gets 18 months for beating man with baseball bat

By Michelle Tuccitto Sullo
Naugatuck Valley Bureau Chief
An Ansonia man who was convicted of beating a man with a baseball bat was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison.
Judge Richard Arnold imposed the sentence on Jeffrey Passander, 27, of Jewett Street, Ansonia, for second-degree assault.
After his release, Passander will be on probation for five years. If he violates it, then he’d risk having to serve a full five years behind bars.
His younger brother and co-defendant, Paul Passander, now 18, was sentenced in May to nine months in prison.

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