Cataldo Released Pending Appeal

Guiseppe "Joe" Cataldo was released from the Tioga County Jail pending an appeal, and $100,00 bail.

Cataldo, who was convicted of first degree criminally negligent homicide in the 1997 stabbing death of 20-year-old Ryan Hickey, was sentenced on April 24 to one-to-four years in prison plus restitution.

Cataldo was in Tioga County Jail awaiting transfer to a state facility when his attorneys filed an appeal with the state Appellate Division, Third Department.

The stabbing of Hickey occurred during a party last summer at a home on Marshland Road in Apalachin.