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NORRISTOWN — A Norristown man who previously spent time in prison for robbery and theft was sent back to prison for using a sharp object to slash the face of another borough man during an altercation in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day.
Jamar Charles Boyd, 40, of the 500 block of Norris Street, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 3 to 6 years in a state correctional facility after he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of aggravated assault causing bodily injury in connection with the Jan. 1, 2023, incident in the borough.
Judge Steven T. O’Neill imposed the sentence as part of a plea agreement. Boyd pleaded guilty to the charge shortly before jury selection was slated to begin for his trial.
The judge ordered Boyd to have no contact with the victim of the slashing incident.
The investigation began on Jan. 3 when a Norristown man reported to borough police that he was the victim of a stabbing in the early morning hours of Jan. 1 in the 500 block of DeKalb Street.
The victim reported that as he left the American Legion in the 500 block of East Marshall Street after celebrating New Year’s Eve there he observed an unknown male near his vehicle. The man, later identified as Boyd, asked for a ride and the victim told Boyd he could take him as far as DeKalb Street, according to the criminal complaint filed by Norristown Detective Charles Leeds.
The victim drove to the 500 block of DeKalb Street where he lived and Boyd began to argue with him about being driven elsewhere and knocked the victim’s phone from his hands.
“(The victim) said a physical interaction then occurred and he was subsequently cut on the left side of his face with an unknown type of blade,” Leeds wrote in the arrest affidavit. “(The victim) said he did not realize he had been cut until he looked in the mirror in his house.”
The victim drove himself of Bryn Mawr Hospital where he was treated for a wound to the left side of his face. The injury required 75 stitches, which were both internal and external, according to court papers.
The victim said he had received information from others that his attacker’s name was “Jamar.” The victim also reported that a photo, posted on the wall of a local tavern of a man not permitted to enter the tavern, matched the description of the person who slashed his face, according to court documents.
Detectives went to the tavern, observed the photos of the male who was banned from the tavern and recognized the individual as Boyd.
The victim subsequently identified Boyd as his attacker from a police photo array.
Detectives also recovered video surveillance footage from the 500 block of DeKalb Street that captured the assault and detectives recognized Boyd as the attacker, according to court documents.
Assistant District Attorney Siobhan Alexandria Harding handled the case. Defense lawyer George M. Griffith Jr. represented Boyd.
The slashing incident was not Boyd’s first run-in with the law.
In April 2019, Boyd, then 35 and of the 500 block of George Street, was sentenced in county court to 2½-to-6-years in prison after he pleaded guilty to charges of robbery, theft by unlawful taking and simple assault in connection with two incidents that occurred in Norristown between October and December 2017.
The first incident involving Boyd occurred in the early morning hours of Oct. 14, 2017, when Boyd robbed a woman of her cellphone and $90 after meeting her at a borough tavern, according to a criminal complaint. That assault occurred in the 200 block of Knox Street.
During the second incident, Norristown police alleged Boyd entered Papa Guido’s Pizza restaurant, 637 West Main Street, shortly before 11:30 p.m. Dec. 1, 2017, approached a cashier, reached over a counter and removed cash from the register. Police said $260 was taken during the theft.
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