By The Diary
Anthony Calvo, a former taxi driver, was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the attempted murder of an elderly former co-worker in Lengthy Seaside (Lengthy Island, NY).
Calvo (35) pleaded guilty on March 20 before Judge Robert Bogle in Nassau County, to having hit a 60-year-old man several times in the head and face with an axcausing life-threatening injuries in 2025. The unidentified victim He miraculously survived, but still requires ongoing medical attention.
Last week Calvo heard his sentence. “The brutal attack carried out (…) last year put Longy Seaside residents on edge, who feared that an axe-wielding assailant was threatening their streets. However, Calvo’s attack was selective; was prompted by a labor dispute that this defendant decided to settle through brutal violence“District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly said in a statement. “Calvo will spend the next two decades in prison, but His ruthless actions have condemned an innocent man to 24-hour medical care. already face a very long road to recovery. “We wish the victim and his family the best, and we hope that the sentence handed down (…) provides them with the justice they deserve.”
According to the prosecution, on February 13, 2025, at approximately 5:50 am, The victim was walking home after finishing his night shift as a dispatcher. for the company “Lengthy Seaside Taxi”. In a Bald moment He ran up behind him and attacked him with an axe. hitting him at least three times in the face, head and arm.
After the attack, the victim crawled to the backyard of his house and knocked on the door asking for help. An injured person called 911. The injured man was taken to Mount Sinai South Nassau Health center with serious head and jaw injuries, which required multiple surgical interventions.
Surveillance video obtained as part of the investigation captured Calvo fleeing the scene on an electric bicycle. On February 19, 2025, a search warrant was executed at the defendant’s apartment. Over there The ax used in the attack was recovered, on which Calvo’s DNA was identified.
He was arrested on March 12, 2025. The accused had worked at “Lengthy Seaside Taxi” as a driver until 2022 and apparently the attack derived from an old dispute with the former co-worker.
In a similar case, in March of this year Luis Gil was sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to having fatally stabbed Guatemalan immigrant Hugo René Morales Maxia in a random attack on Lengthy Island (NYC), in the midst of a “spite.”
In 2024, the elderly Gary Cowell was accused of dismembering the body of a woman with an ax and scattering her remains in three different locations in Patchogue (Lengthy Island), according to the Suffolk County district attorney’s office in New York.
In that same county, in March 2026, Jeremy Allen was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after being found guilty of torturing and murdering his childhood friend Christopher Hahn. And in 2025, three Hispanic migrants were accused of strangling and stabbing Salvadoran Cándido Guadalupe Saravia Martínez to death in a street fight.
In 2023, a 42-year-old man died after being attacked with an ax and shot by his partner’s ex-husband, who confessed to the crime, in the parking lot of a shopping center in Brooklyn (NYC).