Middletown Blotter: Aug. 17-23

Middletown Police report the following incidents:

OPERATE UNREGISTERED VEHICLE, FAILURE TO DISPLAY PLATES, INSURANCE COVERAGE FAILS MINIMUM, NON-STUDENT POSSESSING DRUG PARAPHERNALIA NEAR SCHOOL — On Aug. 23, Gerald R. Fucci, Jr., 25, of Laurelbrook Drive, Guilford, was driving on South Main Street with no plate on his car, and the report says, on the back seat of the car in plain view was a marijuana pipe; Fucci told the officer he used it to smoke "K-2, synthetic marijuana."

OPERATION MOTOR VEHICLE WHEN LICENSE SUSPENDED — On Aug. 18, Caitlyn J. Knoll, 24, of Knox Boulevard was driving on Spring at High Street without a seatbelt when she didn't stop for a intersection sign, the report says.

TWO COUNTS SECOND-DEGREE FAILURE TO APPEAR — On Aug. 23, Karl Holley, 50, of Wall Street, was taken into custody on an outstanding warrant from East Hartford.

FIRST-DEGREE FAILURE TO APPEAR — On Aug. 22 at 3:30 p.m., Floyd West, 55, of Sterling Street, Hartford, turned himself in on an outstanding warrant. He was unable to post bond, the report says.

TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE, INTERFERING WITH OFFICER — On Aug. 22 at 2 p.m., Douglas Allen Rhynhart, 28, of Hubbard Street was on Ferry Street just off Main Street, when an officer suspected he was trying to sell drugs to another man, the report says, in a hand-to-hand swap. A suspect fled from police on a bike, the report says, and failed to stop after police yelled for him to do so many times; nothing illegal was found on him, after officers saw him "put a small object into his mouth and swallow it." He told officers Rhynhart tried to sell him "pills, Oxys and Percocets," the report says.

DUI, FAILURE TO DRIVE IN THE PROPER LANE, FAILURE TO OBEY CONTROL SIGNAL — On Aug. 19 at 3:09 a.m., Michelle L. Salafia, 35, of Adna Road, Bristol, was driving an Acura MDX on Newfield Street at Tuttle Road and was observed by a police officer not stopping at the red light, the report details. The officer followed her for a quarter-mile as she drove 70mph in a 40mph zone, the report says, and drifting left over the double-yellow line and when stopped, hit a curb on the passenger side. The officer says he smelled alcohol on her breath and she had glossed-over eyes. In heels, the report says, Salafia took off her shoes and failed a sobriety test barefoot. A breath test revealed a blood-alcohol content of .193 and .185, the report says.

OPERATION MOTOR VEHICLE WHEN LICENSE SUSPENDED, FAILURE TO HAVE LIGHTS LIT — On Aug. 17, Randy M. DePino, 39, of Townsend Avenue, New Haven, was driving a Honda Accord on South Main Street with no headlights lit.