By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News
(CHICAGO) — After spending the night at a lockup on the city’s West Side Ald. Ricardo Munoz (22nd) pleaded not guilty Thursday to allegations that he attacked his wife on New Year’s Eve.
In accepting his not guilty plea and setting bond at $2,500, Cook County Judge Megan Goldish ordered that Munoz stay away from his wife, their home, their dog and his wife’s downtown workplace.
In an order of protection filed Wednesday by Munoz’s wife, she wrote that her husband had been drinking all day and later Monday night, forcibly grabbed and pushed her which caused her to fall, hit her head and twist her left arm.
Outside of the courtroom, Betty Torres-Munoz told reporters that she has “been dealing with this for 34 years.”
Munoz, the city’s longest-tenured Hispanic alderman, announced in July that he would not seek re-election.
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