Assault at the Candlelight Inn

Customers got overheated at the Candlelight Inn on Central Avenue on Sunday night 9/25 when an argument broke out between two men. Diners reported that the fight began as a verbal exchange but escalated when the two men went out to the parking lot. Police were summoned and when they arrived they found a number of people standing in the parking lot and an injured man lying on the ground with a bleeding head.

Observers told police that one man, later identified as Benjamin Planas of Yonkers, struck the other in the back of the head with a push broom handle. The 44 year-old victim’s name was not released, however he was seriously injured and taken to White Plains hospital for treatment where he was found to have a skull fracture.

Benjamin Planas was charged with assault in the second degree and was arraigned in Greenburgh County Court before Judge Doris Friedman. He is being held at Westchester County Jail and is due back in court on Tuesday September 28.