Man accused in stabbing faces ouster from pretrial program

According to his warrant, Toscano had stabbed the man two to three times after finding him in his sister-in-law’s bedroom early one morning.

STAMFORD — A Norwalk man accused of stabbing his sister-in-law’s ex is likely to be tossed out of a pretrial probationary program related to a prior criminal case, a judge said on Thursday.

Judge Kevin Randolph told Anthony Toscano, 24, that he will likely terminate the 24-year-old’s accelerated rehabilitation, pretrial probation program that — if successfully completed — would’ve led to charges against him being dropped after he was arrested in August on a first-degree assault charge.

Toscano, who had been facing first-degree intimidation due to bias and thirddegree criminal mischief charges, was accepted into the probation program

back in October 2021.

Just a few weeks before completing the program, however, Toscano picked up a serious felony assault charge following a stabbing in Norwalk on July 26.

That day, Norwalk police responded to a Bedford Avenue home on reports of a stabbing.

According to his warrant, Toscano had stabbed the man two to three times after finding him in his sister-in-law’s bedroom early one morning.

Toscano later claimed to police that the victim had previously threatened multiple family members in the house, including his wife, the warrant said.

The warrant said Toscano had heard the victim and his sister-in-law arguing that morning, so he grabbed a knife and went to the room. At one point during the ensuing altercation, Toscano said he felt he “needed to defend himself ” and “poked” the victim twice with the knife, according to the warrant.

Toscano is next expected to appear in court on Feb. 2, at which time a judge will decide whether to terminate the probationary program.