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TOWN OF NEWBURGH — A dispute over a missing camera at a wedding reception escalated into a 100-person brawl that left two people with stab wounds Saturday night, police said.


"It just kept going on and on," said Town of Newburgh police Sgt. Peter Talarico, who was one of about 30 cops to respond to the melee at the Ramada Inn on Route 300, which spilled into the hotel's parking lot. "It was a wedding party gone bad."


A woman was stabbed in the leg and a man — the wedding reception's disc jockey — was stabbed in the back of the neck. Both were treated at the Newburgh campus of St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital and released.


police broke up nearly 30 fights during the free-for-all. Cops from the Town and the City of Newburgh

Talarico says it took nearly two hours for police to restore order.

A third man was treated at the hospital's Cornwall campus after being punched in the face; he was later released.


no one at the scene was cooperating with police.