Firearms police confiscated from Donald Stenico’s home on Sept. 19, 2014.
WESTFIELD- A 55-year-old city man was sentenced to two and a half years in the House of Correction and placed on probation until 2022 on ten charges that include indecent assault and battery on a minor.
Donald Stenico, of 919 Southampton Road, pleaded guilty to four counts of indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or over in Westfield District Court on November 16.
Stenico admittedly sexually touched a 15- to 16-year-old girl on five separate occasions in Westfield between the spring of 2013 until September 19, 2014, when he was charged.
The defendant allegedly gave the female “full body massages,” with the victim being half-clothed, in the bedroom of his Westfield home and on one occasion had the victim strip naked at his place of employment in Westfield. The victim never consented to these advances, according to Westfield Police Det. Anthony Tsatsos’ Statement of Facts.
Stenico’s wife informed police that he was keeping firearms in the apartment and police found that he did not have an active license to carry or an active Firearms Identification Card in the state of Massachusetts, according to court records.
Stenico will serve a concurrent one-year sentence after pleading guilty to three counts of counts of improper storage of a firearm and three counts possession of firearm without FID card.
Ammunition confiscated from Donald Stenico’s home on Sept. 19, 2014.
Two counts of possession of large capacity firearm were dismissed.
Stenico allowed police to take his firearms to the police station on September 19 since they were not secured. Weapons included a Ruger Mini-14 .223 rifle (considered a large capacity rifle) and a high point .40 caliber pistol along with a “blue nylon bag filled with ammunition and magazines,” according to Tsatsos.
Ammo included: 70 rounds of .380, 83 rounds of .40 and 30 rounds of .223.
Police also found a Firestorm “Bersa” .380 caliber pistol, with a loaded magazine inserted and a round loaded in the chamber, leaning up against the recliner where Stenico had been seated.
“While sitting in the recliner, all Stenico had to do was reach down with his right hand and he would have been able to access and use this weapon,” Tsatsos wrote in his report.
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