Firefighter faces domestic violence charges in Broward

Fire-Rescue paramedics treat 2 victims allegedly injured by colleague

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. ā€“ The Coral Springs Fire Department recently responded to a home in Coral Springs to treat two people who had been allegedly injured byĀ an enraged firefighter, who remained at the Broward County main jail on Monday afternoon.

Coral Springs Police Department officers arrested Sunrise-Fire Rescue Department firefighter Martin Valentino, 56, on Saturday. Officers reported findingĀ his wife withĀ a busted lip and red marks onĀ her face and chest, and her son with a contusion over his right eye.Ā 

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The male victimĀ told the officersĀ the argument that started it all was about ValentinoĀ "talking to other women online," according to the police report.Ā 

Valentino told officers the argument started over dinner, and he admitted to grabbing and punching the male victim in the face, after heĀ cursed and "came running at him with a closed fist like he was going to hit him."

Valentino denied having hit his wife, but according to the reportĀ he didĀ sayĀ "he may have ran into her during the altercation."Ā 

Prosecutors charged Valentino with one count of domestic battery by strangulation, a third-degree felony, and one count of domestic violence battery, a first-degree misdemeanor.Ā 


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