STATE COLLEGE, PA — The alleged ringleader of a Penn State cocaine ring challenged the denial of his bail on Tuesday, the day before his preliminary hearing on numerous criminal charges.
The attorney for Agostino Abbatiello, Philip Masorti, filed an 88-page emergency motion that asserted Abbatiello should be released on his own recognizance.
Abbatiello “voluntarily returned from Florida and surrendered to authorities,” Masorti said in a prepared statement. “He has no criminal record, no history of flight, and, after a two-year investigation, the motion states that law enforcement never asserted that he used violence, threatened violence, or was seen with a weapon.
