Brozowski pleaded guilty to first-degree assault in a Babylon stabbing.

A guilty plea to Assault in the First Degree is an admission on that count, not a sentence. Robert Brozowski, 35, of Yonkers, pleaded guilty Sept. 24, 2026, before Supreme Court Justice Timothy P. Mazzei, and the 18-year term expected on Oct. 28, 2026, is not imposed until the court sentences him.

The stabbing was the late evening of Aug. 29, 2025, at a Babylon residence. Brozowski was visiting the victim's roommate. The Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said he tried to engage the 38-year-old victim in an unprovoked verbal argument and stabbed the victim in the neck with a knife. The two did not know each other before that night. Those are the facts the office described. They are the conduct behind the assault count he admitted.

Brozowski fled in a red 2018 Chevrolet Silverado. Two callers reached 911. Suffolk police from the First Precinct responded at about 11:58 p.m. An officer saw the vehicle on Deer Park Avenue at the Southern State Parkway. Brozowski pulled over, then fled, and was stopped one exit farther and taken into custody. The weapon was never recovered. The victim underwent emergency surgery to repair a severed trachea and esophagus, has been discharged, and continues to recuperate.

The district attorney said Brozowski was on probation for a New Jersey domestic violence felony conviction at the time. An attempted murder charge was dropped as part of the plea. He is due back Oct. 28, 2026. The 18-year prison term is what the plea is expected to produce. It is not a sentence until Justice Mazzei imposes it. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.