GLASTONBURY — The man accused of stabbing his live-in partner earlier this week is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday morning.
Jason McCormick, 47, was charged with attempt to commit murder, first-degree assault on an elderly person and second-degree threatening.
He is expected in court on the charges Thursday morning. There were no updated court records for the case immediately available on the state’s judicial site Thursday.
Anthony Spinella, attorney for the victim Bruce Bemer, said Wednesday that his client had been released from the hospital and was “comfortably resting.”
Bemer, a millionaire businessman, is in the process of appealing a conviction linked to a Danbury-area sex trafficking ring. He has been out on bond since September 2019.
Spinella said McCormick was Bemer’s live-in partner.
Glastonbury police officers responded to a Sherwood Drive home late Tuesday night for a report of an “active family violence incident,” Lt. Corey Davis said Wednesday.
“Officers found an elderly male victim in the garage suffering from multiple stab wounds,” Davis said. “Another male, identified as Jason McCormick, was found in another area of the home with self-inflicted knife wounds to his arms.”
Davis said investigators learned McCormick had stopped the victim during a “violent altercation in the home.”
McCormick and Bemer were taken to Hartford Hospital for their injuries.
Back on June 17, 2019, Bemer, who owns the Waterford Speedbowl car racing track, was sentenced to serve a 10-year and a 20-year jail sentences concurrently on four counts of patronizing a trafficked person and one count of criminal liability for trafficking a person.
Bemer and two other men were arrested by authorities in 2017 in connection with a sex trafficking ring they said exploited vulnerable young men for more than 20 years.
Law enforcement claimed in court filings that Bemer was a client of the ring, operated by Danbury resident Robert King — who police said would befriend young men in difficult circumstances and provide them drugs, pushing them into prostitution once they ran up a debt to him, court filings showed.
Bemer told police King supplied him with young men for more than two decades.
King later pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit tracking in persons. He is serving a 4.5-year prison sentence at Cheshire Correctional Institution, according to state records.
Spinella said his client continues the appeals process in this case. Court documents show Bemer was free on a $750,000 bond.
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