Assault charges involving family dropped against boxer (The Associated Press)

Prosecutors dropped assault charges against former lightweight boxing champ Paul Spadafora for allegedly stabbing his brother and kicking his mother during a family dispute, though he’s still charged with threatening city police officers who intervened, and spitting on one. Spadafora waived a preliminary hearing Wednesday on an aggravated assault charge – for allegedly spitting at the officer – several counts of making terroristic threats and resisting arrest stemming from the Dec. 21 fracas. The charges involving his family members were dropped because the family failed to show at Wednesday’s preliminary hearing and two prior hearings that were also postponed because Spadafora’s mother, Ann, didn’t appear, defense attorney William Difenderfer said.
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