STAMFORD — A New York man facing felony assault charges for a 2020 stabbing had his bond hiked by $250,000 after he violated his house arrest to “smoke marijuana,” a state prosecutor said.
Alan Lagunes, 19, was taken into custody by Stamford Superior Court marshals Wednesday afternoon following a negative report filed by his probation officer.
Assistant State’s Attorney Daniel Cummings said the officer reported that Lagunes, who faces a first-degree assault charge stemming from a April 2020 stabbing in Greenwich, told him “without hesitation” that he had violated court-ordered house arrest earlier this year in order to “go on a drive and smoke pot.”
Attorney Stephen Seeger, who represents Lagunes, said his client offered him a different description of the alleged violation.
Seeger said his client simply went outside to his car in order to grab a baby seat for the mother of his child.
Judge Gary White, however, sided with the sworn affidavit provided by the probation officer, and ordered a significant bond raise on Lagunes’s file.
“I know that probation officer and he is credible,” White said before raising the bond, which had previously been lowered to a promise to appear.
White also ordered a competency evaluation on Lagunes upon request from Seeger.
Lagunes is one of three individuals arrested in March 2021 in connection to a stabbing on Orchard Street in Cos Cob on April 24, 2020. His two codefendants were both 17-year-old minors at the time of the incident and their identities have not been released.
Lagunes is next scheduled to appear in court on April 27.