A Vallejo man accused of running over his wife with his pickup
truck while they were in Morgan Hill was charged Monday with felony
spousal abuse and assault with a deadly weapon.
A Vallejo man accused of running over his wife with his pickup truck while they were in Morgan Hill was charged Monday with felony spousal abuse and assault with a deadly weapon.
Alfred Digiandomenico, 38, was held in the Santa Rita jail for parole violation charges after the Sept. 9 incident, which occurred on Old Monterey Road in Morgan Hill. Digiandomenico and his wife, who have a transportation/hauling business, were removing a portable building from the El Toro Fire Station when he allegedly drove his vehicle over his wife causing serious injuries.
“Mr. Digiandomenico is now being held in Santa Clara County Jail in lieu of $150,000 bail,” Assistant District Attorney James Gibbons-Shapiro said Wednesday. “His arraignment has not been scheduled to date, but we anticipate that will happen shortly.”
Digiandomenico is being held on spousal abuse and deadly weapons charges.
“This culminates a weeks’ long investigation by detectives trying to piece together the incident from various sources of information,” according to Special Operations Sgt. David Swing. Dianna Digiandomenico, 44, was in a medically-induced coma after she was airlifted from the accident scene to Valley Medical Center, according to Morgan Hill Police Cmdr. Joe Sampson. She recently regained consciousness, Sampson said Friday, but will remain in the hospital possibly for several months while recuperating from injuries to her hips, legs, lower abdomen and ribs.
Originally, Digiandomenico told police he and his wife had been arguing, and she was sitting on the side of the truck bed when he pulled quickly out onto the road. He told police she fell off the side, and the truck ran over the lower part of her body.
Police suspected otherwise, and when they interviewed her after she came out of the coma, she gave them her story.
“Some of her details were a little different than the one’s her husband gave,” Sampson said. “It seems she was outside of the truck, on the driver’s side of the truck, and that was our suspicion anyway. The truck was moving during whatever dispute they were having, and somehow she went from standing to being under the truck.”
