Assault Trial Of Ex-Tewksbury Wrestling Champ Postponed

LOWELL - The assault trial of former Tewksbury High School wrestling champion Broc A. Dokos has been postponed until May.

At a recent court hearing, Dokos' trial was rescheduled to May 30.

Dokos, 19, of Lowell, has pleaded not guilty to charges of assault and battery causing serious bodily injury and assault and battery. He is accused of beating a former teammate, Stephen Bonugli, then 18, at a friend's Fourth of July party in Tewksbury.

Tewksbury police allege that as a drunken Bonugli sat on a couch at 3 a.m., Dokos "stormed" into the living room and punched Bonugli in the face up to six times.
Unconscious after the first punch, police say Bonugli suffered a concussion, a broken orbital bone, and needed surgery to wire his broken jaw shut.

During Dokos' dangerousness hearing shortly after his arrest last July, Dokos' girlfriend Amanda Ferreira, and his best friend, Fox Maxwell, testified that they were at the party and that Bonugli was the aggressor.
Ferreira and Maxwell testified that each witnessed part of the incident, but both testified that Bonugli shoved Dokos and tried unsuccessfully to punch him before Dokos punched the victim twice in the face.
But Ferreira and Maxwell were indicted last month on perjury charges. The Middlesex District Attorney's Office alleges that investigators learned that neither Ferreira nor Maxwell were at the party.
Dokos also has an unrelated assault and battery charge that allegedly involved throwing a bottle of Gatorade at a 15-year-old boy on May 6, 2016. That case is scheduled for a further hearing on Feb. 3.
Dokos, a 2016 Tewksbury High School graduate, is a 2016 Division 2 State Wrestling Champion.