RESTAURATEUR PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO ATTACKING WAITER.Byline: Laurence Laurence is the surname or the given name of several people: Surname
In a scene suitable to a bad movie, the owner of a posh Valencia restaurant was charged with attacking one of his waiters - first with a butter knife and then with a broken bottle. Valencia Inn owner Giancarlo Zaretti was arraigned Tuesday in Newhall Municipal Court on charges of assault and making threats in the Saturday evening incident at his restaurant. Zaretti, 51, of Northridge pleaded not guilty and was ordered held in lieu of Instead of; in place of; in substitution of. It does not mean in addition to. $120,000 bail. He faces a prison term if convicted. The charges were filed after waiter Christian Beam accused Zaretti of stabbing stab v. stabbed, stab·bing, stabs v.tr. 1. To pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon. 2. To plunge (a pointed weapon or instrument) into something. 3. him during an argument over the distribution of tips among Beam and three other waiters, said Deputy District Attorney Cynthia Ulfig. Beam confronted Zaretti after a new waiter at the restaurant received just $12 in tips, while a friend of Zaretti received $40. Beam and another waiter each got about $27, Ulfig said. ``He didn't think it was right that the waiter got so little and (Zaretti's) friend so much,'' Ulfig said. ``The victim claims the defendant got angry and pushed him, and he pushed him back. ``The defendant then came at him with a butter knife. He was chasing him around with a butter knife. Then he got a bottle of wine, cracked cracked said of grain; indicates grain that has been exposed to a combined breaking and crushing action. the bottle and started chasing him with that - and managed to stab him in the leg,'' she said. Neither Zaretti nor his attorney could be reached for comment Tuesday. Zaretti also is accused of disconnecting the telephone at the restaurant so the attack could not be reported and of threatening to kill Beam when he went to use a telephone across the street. Zaretti left the restaurant and was not there when deputies arrived. He was arrested the following day at the restaurant by sheriff's deputies, officials said. Beam needed medical treatment for his wound, which had glass embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. in it, Ulfig said. The Valencia Inn, which features continental cuisine Cuisine (from French cuisine, "cooking; culinary art; kitchen"; ultimately from Latin coquere, "to cook") is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a specific culture. , just opened in February on Tournament Road at the location of a former seafood seafood Edible aquatic animals excluding mammals, but including both freshwater and ocean creatures. Seafood includes bony and cartilaginous fishes, crustaceans, mollusks, edible jellyfish, sea turtles, frogs, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers. restaurant called Mel's Landing. |
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