Middletown Blotter: July 8-22

Middletown Police report the following incidents:

FIRST-DEGREE FAILURE TO APPEAR — On July 22 at 1:15 p.m., Ashley K. Chance, 26, of Lower Road, East Canaan, turned herself in on an outstanding warrant.

THIRD-DEGREE ASSAULT — On July 22 at 8:32 p.m., Dwight L. Hawes, 64, of Laurel Grove Road fought with his wife, police say, after arriving home from a weekend trip and discovering his wife had had an affair. He threw coffee on her, the report details, and pushed her backward, causing her to land on her back. The wife told officers that the two had been in Maine and they fought over him staying with friends and not spending enough time with her, the report says, so she returned home.

SECOND-DEGREE FAILURE TO APPEAR — On July 21 at 9:19 p.m., Calvin Mack, 43, of no certain address was found walking on Pearl Street with two outstanding warrants.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT — On July 21 at midnight, police were called to Stoneycrest Drive for a fight with a man and woman. Elena DeLeon, 41, struck the victim, scratching his temple.

SECOND-DEGREE FAILURE TO APPEAR — On July 20 at 4 a.m., Frances J. Justiniano, 22, of Ferry Street turned herself in on an outstanding warrant.

POSSESSION NARCOTICS — On July 20 at 8:58 p.m., Ira Dwane Lacks, 31, of Green Street was driving a Chevrolet Cavalier on High Street and almost hit another car as an officer was watching. The report says Lacks has a long criminal record for possession and sale of crack cocaine, intent to sell and possession of a handgun. An officer saw cocaine on the car floorboard and a K-9 identified it as such, the report says, and some more in a cup totaling .1 grams; Lacks insisted the white cup contents was pieces of bread and he couldn’t understand why he was being arrested.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT, INTERFERING WITH OFFICER — On July 20 at 11:16 p.m., Michael Konefal, 32, of High Street fought with his live-in girlfriend; as police arrived, they heard her repeatedly telling him, “leave, leave now.” The report says she told him she didn’t want to be in a relationship with him any longer and he pushed her onto the bed; Konefal, it says, was intoxicated and causing difficulties.

THREATENING — On July 20 at 5:07 p.m., Dawayne Allen, 21, a resident of Northwoods Lane, was at the mental health group home for adults and, the report says, told an employee, “I’m going to go to New Haven, get a gun and shoot you.” While at the hospital for a police emergency exam, he told a house worker watching him that he was going to break out, go get a gun, come back and shoot everyone, police say, and after security was called, “cracked his neck and said, ‘go ahead, make my day.’” Police say he has a past arrest from March 2011 in which he threatened and assaulted a teacher.

SECOND-DEGREE BREACH OF PEACE — On July 20 at 9:23 a.m., a man said his child’s mother, Dulijeta Becirovic, 20, of McKenzie Street, refused to let him leave the house after an argument, the report says, over them taking separate cars to their 7-month-old’s doctor’s appointment. He said he has been involved in multiple domestic incidents with her and believes she suffers from postpartum depression, that police have come at least three times and mobile crisis twice, police say. He videotaped her holding his pants not allowing him to leave and she hit him in the face, the report says. Police tried to take the child from her, the report says, but she was hysterical and struggled with them. Police say the man said she tore up all his pictures recently that he has of his 4-year-old son with another woman, smashing the frames and leaving glass everywhere.

FIRST-DEGREE FAILURE TO APPEAR — On July 19 at 1:56 p.m., Sean P. Sokoloski, 29, of Farm Hill Road was at a home on Wadsworth Street and found with two outstanding warrants from Meriden for attempt to commit second-degree assault, second-degree threatening, second-degree reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct.

SIXTH-DEGREE LARCENY, THIRD-DEGREE ROBBERY, THIRD-DEGREE ASSAULT — On July 19 at 6:04 p.m., officers were walking in the North End and saw a victim flagging them down on Frazier Avenue. She said she had been robbed by Gregory Overton, 38, of Liberty Street, the report says, a “violent convicted felon,” who is “unbalanced, with a history of narcotics abuse.” Police say they had been at his home many times over the past three weeks and twice that day for threatening his caseworkers. At 5:50 p.m., the report says, the victim was walking past Aresco’s Market on Liberty Street looking at his phone and Overton asked him the time, then grabbed the $150 phone and punched him in the ear and neck. Overton told officers he took the phone because the victim owed him $100; then said the victim gave him the phone and he gave it to someone he owed money to, the report says.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT — On July 19 at 11:39 p.m., Michelle L. Salafia, 35, of Adna Road, Bristol, was fighting with her mother on Robin Court while intoxicated, the report says, in the presence of two grandchildren. When the mother, Rosemary Mullaly, 56, of Robin Court, confronted her, police say, Salafia and the mother pushed and shoved each other and she could barely stand, talking about some other incident with an abusive boyfriend. Both were arrested.

INSURANCE COVERAGE FAILS MINIMUM, OPERATION MOTOR VEHICLE WHEN LICENSE IS SUSPENDED — On July 16, police were called to Protech Automotive on South Main Street for a suspicious car left in the lot. The owner of the Honda CRV, Yamilette Ortiz, 34, of Middle Turnpike, Manchester, had struck one of the cars parked in the lot.

OPERATE UNREGISTERED VEHICLE, IMPROPER USE MARKER PLATE, INSURANCE COVERAGE FAILS MINIMUM — On July 12 at 2:47 p.m., police saw Alan Albert Kelley, 49, of no certain address driving a Jeep Cherokee on Washington Street near Main. He told officers he was picking up his unregistered car from the garage and bringing it home.

USE OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA — On July 8 at 7:30 p.m., Wayne S. Green, 47, of Silver Street was seen by police leaning into a Dodge Caliber parked on Liberty Street in a prohibited area. Green is known to officers for selling crack cocaine, the report says, saw police, hid a pipe and walked away. Inside the car, which was running, there was an open 24-ounce can of beer and the driver, Timothy A. Williams, 50, of Town Colony Drive, admitted it was his. Green was charged with the above and Williams for improper parking and drinking while operating a motor vehicle.