UPDATED: 12/28/23, 6:09 p.m.
Nicholas Faraglia and Edward Pearce were admitted into an Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition (ARD) program for a year. They were also sentenced to 20 years of community service and ordered to pay all fines and court costs.
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PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Two of the nearly dozen people who police say flipped a car before the Eagles-Chiefs Super Bowl have been charged.
Nicholas Faraglia, 21, of North Philadelphia, and Edward Pearce, 23, of Aldan, Delaware County, turned themselves in on Wednesday alongside their attorneys. The two are charged with criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, recklessly endangering another person, and related offenses.
Police said they were part of a crowd that flipped over and damaged a silver Volvo near North 17th and Arlington streets.
It happened on Super Bowl Sunday, about two hours before kickoff. The video released showed many people in Eagles gear cheering on the group to flip the car.
The windows were broken and the car was also spray-painted.
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Authorities say a group also bashed a Ford Taurus in with an ice scraper.
In response, the District Attorney’s office set up a Restorative Response Program, where more than 700 people were arrested.
A District Attorney spokesperson says that type of restorative justice program is only put into place “at the victim’s request” and that it's too early to say whether that will be an option in this case.
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Attornies for both men say the two are remorseful and turned themselves in
as soon as they saw the pictures. Faraglia’s attorney, Greg Pagano, says his surrender saved detectives time and energy. He said his client, a Temple University student, will do whatever is possible to "make the victim whole again."
Both Faraglia and Pearce have been released without bail and are due back in court in two weeks.
Officials are still waiting to hear from the eight others whose pictures are depicted in the video released by police. Authorities say they have been identified, and are urging those people to turn themselves in.