Former shock jock radio host Anthony Cumia will have to wait another month to appear in court for assault charges brought against him following his arrest on Dec. 20.
Cumia was due in court on Jan. 4, but the Nassau County District Attorney’s office confirmed the appointment was adjourned because the judge hearing the case was unavailable.
He was arrested for allegedly assaulting his 26-year-old girlfriend, Danielle Brand, at his Roslyn Heights home.
Nassau County Police said he faces charges of strangulation, unlawful imprisonment, criminal mischief and assault.
Cumia hosted his web-based talk show, “The Anthony Cumia Show,” on Monday and briefly mentioned the hearing change.
“ I was in court this morning, but alas, the judge didn’t show up,” he said. “I have to come back… and back and back and keep coming back because apparently this goes on forever… the slow churning wheels of justice.”
He is due back in court on Feb. 4.
Cumia spoke briefly about the incident during his Dec. 21 broadcast The Anthony Cumia show.
“No one more than I wants to just open up and spill everything right on this program about what happened,” he said. “I have been advised by people much more knowledgeable than me on this, and much less apt to use emotion than me, to not discuss the details of this ongoing case, as it were.”
In a statement made to Blank Slate Media after the arrest in December, Cumia’s attorney, Alan J. Schwartz, said Cumia “emphatically denies the allegations brought against him.”
“He entered a plea of not guilty to all charges and was released without bail, and directed to appear back in court in January,” Schwartz said.
He added that “simply put, things are not always what they appear to be, and this case is a perfect example of that.”
The incident was filmed and posted online to the social media application Periscope by Brand, and later on Youtube, in which she can be heard making claims of being injured with a broken hand.
At one point Cumia can be heard telling Brand to leave his house.
Cumia, a resident of Roslyn Heights, was part of the shock jock duo “Opie and Anthony” alongside Gregg “Opie” Hughes that broadcast through the subscription-based Sirius XM network from 2004 to 2014.
The show was cancelled in 2014 after Cumia was fired for posting racially charged tweets online alleging he was assaulted by a black woman in Times Square.
He has since started his own subscription-based internet radio show, which is broadcast from studios in New York City and his Roslyn Heights home.
