A former University of Connecticut student was given a shot to have his record erased after a drunken, profanity-laced tirade about jalapeno-bacon macaroni and cheese at a school dining hall last year, but his special probation was terminated and he's been fined.
Luke Gatti, of Bayville, New York, pleaded guilty under the Alford Doctrine and has been ordered to pay a $100 fine.
During a past couexrt appearance, Gatti told the judge he's "got nothing to defend" and said he was "entirely ashamed of my actions and that's pretty much it."
During his last court appearance in Connecticut, Gatti was given accelerated rehabilitation, a form of probation that means the case would have been expunged from his record if he avoided any legal trouble and complied with random drug tests.
However Gatti was arrested in June in Florida, accused of assaulting a police officer at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility there.
The Connecticut arrest came after an Oct. 4 outburst in UConn's student union. He was accused of ranting at and shoving a university food-service supervisor, who had refused to sell him jalapeno-bacon macaroni and cheese after Gatti was allegedly caught drinking in the Union Street Market dining facility.
The wild exchange was caught on a video that was widely viewed on the Internet. Gatti later apologized in a video of his own.
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Gatti was originally charged with misdemeanor breach of peace and trespassing and the prosecutor objected the probation because Gatti had two arrests when he was a University of Massachusetts student, arrests on similar charges.
