Donald Segar Receives 8 Year Prison Term, Convicted of Assaulting Former Girlfriend
Saturday, December 20, 2014
WOODBURY NJ (December 19, 2014)Donald D. Segar (DOB 4/22/92), of Newtonville NJ was sentenced today to eight years in New Jersey state prison following his conviction on assault and weapons charges resulting from a February 17, 2013 confrontation with his girlfriend in her Woodbury NJ apartment in which witnesses told police she was choked and he fired shots into the unit’s ceiling in the presence of the girlfriend’s year-old daughter.
Segar was convicted in a jury trial on 10/2/13 of aggravated assault with a firearm, threat to kill, endangering the welfare of a child, unlawful possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and certain persons not to have weapons because of a prior criminal conviction.
On the certain persons charge (resulting from an Atlantic County narcotics conviction), Superior Court Judge Paul Porecca sentenced Segar to eight years in state prison, ordering that he not be eligible for parole before serving five years of the term.
The other weapons charges and the endangering count also drew eight-year prison terms, to be served concurrently with the certain persons sentence. Segar also received a concurrent 18 month prison sentence for assault and four years for the threat conviction, also concurrent with the certain persons term.
On the most serious convictions, the sentences imposed were consistent with the position of Assistant Gloucester County Prosecutor Paul Colangelo, who presented the prosecution’s case in Segar’s trial and recommended terms on the high end of the 5-to-10 year range for the second-degree weapons and endangering convictions.
The defense in Segar’s trial maintained the incident never happened but was concocted by his girlfriend’s parents, while Colangelo said the charges resulted from a solid investigation by Woodbury police who obtained eyewitness statements establishing the defendant’s guilt.