Middletown Arrests: April 17 to May 5

Middletown Police announce the following arrests:

May 5
DISORDERLY CONDUCT —At 2:24 a.m., Alphonse P. LaBella, 54, of Liberty Street came home drunk and threw items at his sister, according to the report, pushed her down and punched her in the face. Her left ankle was hurt, police say, and LaBella was intoxicated and belligerent, however he denied hurting her.

May 4
At 11 p.m., Kevin R. Fell, 26, of Beldon Lane, Rocky Hill, was picked up by Rocky Hill Police for failure to have his brake light lit, the report says. His charges were unclear.

SECOND-DEGREE FORGERY, TWO COUNTS SECOND-DEGREE FAILURE TO APPEAR — At 6:30 p.m., Tanya West, 40, of Nelson Street, Hartford, was picked up by Wethersfield Police on three outstanding warrants.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT — At 10:20 p.m., Jessica DeJesus, 27, of Marsh Isle Circle, Port St. Lucia, Fla., was fighting with five to six males on Main Street, police say, as officers heard slapping noises. Her twin sister Jasmine DeJesus, 27, of Main Street punched her in the face in front of Jessica's 3- and 4-year-old children and Jessica punched Jasmine, police say. Both were arrested.

THIRD-DEGREE ASSAULT — At 5:22 a.m., Anthony W. Lyons, 45, of Newfield Street was on Silver Street when police responded for an unwanted person, the report says, and found with an outstanding warrant.

May 3
FOUR COUNTS FIRST-DEGREE FAILURE TO APPEAR — Christopher D. Welch, 29, of Villa Street was taken into custody on four outstanding warrants by Anthony's Bail Bond while sitting in a car in front of the Main Street Market.

April 30
POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO SELL, DISTRIBUTION OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES LESS THAN 1,500 FEET FROM SCHOOL, POSSESSION NARCOTICS AND NON-STUDENT POSSESSING DRUGS NEAR SCHOOL — At 10:34 p.m., Marcus Mickens, 43, of Burnham Street, Hartford, was driving a Volvo V70 station wagon on Main Street Extension. The report says he is a convicted felon and was found with a marijuana cigarette, cash, and a cell phone.

April 28
DISORDERLY CONDUCT, THIRD-DEGREE ASSAULT, THIRD-DEGREE STRANGULATION, SECOND-DEGREE UNLAWFUL RESTRAINT — At 9 p.m., police were called to a home on Towne Ridge Drive for a woman screaming in an apartment. The report says that when officers arrived, they heard Jeffrey Williams, 43, of Town Ridge Drive say if the woman hit him in the face again he would hit her back and that he couldn't believe she hit him. Police say the woman, whom had been dating Williams for two years, was crying after they argued a day before and she came over to discuss the disagreement. The report says Williams said the woman tripped and she ran into the bathroom crying, then came out and slapped him in the face. The woman said she went over to get the $250 he owed her, they argued and he pushed her so hard she fell, hurting her elbow and head, then held her wrists, and assaulted her in the bathroom so she slapped him to get away. The report says he he pinned her to the ground and kneed her rib cage, then pushed her on the bed and "muzzled" her mouth as she screamed for help, and choked her.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT, SECOND-DEGREE STRANGULATION, INTERFERING WITH OFFICER, THIRD-DEGREE ASSAULT — Abdurrahman I. Akhdar, 20, of South Front Street allegedly assaulted his live-in girlfriend by slapping, punching and strangling, pulled her hair and shoved her face into a mattress, then threw rocks at her window. The report says he ran away from police into the woods and the victim is two month's pregnant with Akhdar's child.

SECOND- AND TWO COUNTS FIRST-DEGREE FAILURE TO APPEAR, INTERFERING WITH OFFICER, SIXTH-DEGREE LARCENY, FAILURE TO RESPOND — At 8:25 a.m., police were called to a home on Washington Street about a stolen Apple iPhone 4s while the owner was in the shower the day before. The report says Quamane R. Cherry, 22, of Woodbury Circle, the victim's cousin's boyfriend, was found to have taken the phone and was upstairs sleeping. The report says he had placed it on top of the refrigerator under a box of cereal. Police say he had four outstanding warrants.

April 27
DISORDERLY CONDUCT, THIRD-DEGREE ASSAULT, SECOND-DEGREE UNLAWFUL RESTRAINT — At 10:30 p.m., Jonathan Rivera-Musses, 30, of Birdsey Avenue turned himself into police on an outstanding warrant.

POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO SELL, DISTRIBUTION OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES LESS THAN 1,500 FEET FROM SCHOOL, POSSESSION NARCOTICS — At 2:06 p.m., Marcus Bloom, 37, of Stanley Street, New Britain, was fighting with a man on Wetmore Place, according to the report, and when police arrived, they found Sonya Luciano standing outside a Chrysler Sebring. A search revealed a .1 gram marijuana cigarette, cell phones, an Oxycodone pill and 1.4 grams of cocaine in the car. Several text messages on Bloom's phone indicated he was selling drugs, which he denied initially but later stopped. He then said he was holding Luciano's crack for her.

April 24
USE OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA, POSSESSION CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES, SIXTH-DEGREE LARCENY — At 4:26 p.m., Alison K. Kozikowski, 25, of Childs Road, East Hampton, was at RiteAid on Main Street and was seen by a loss prevention officer hiding items in her bag. The report says she told the officer she was hungry and stole them because she didn't have money. Inside her purse was 11 packets of heroin totaling 5.1 grams, police say. She has two prior arrests for possession of marijuana and paraphernalia.

April 22
INTERFERING WITH OFFICER, ASSAULT PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER, BREACH OF PEACE, THIRD-DEGREE ASSAULT — Christopher O. Bobbitt, 36, of Belden Street, New Britain, was at Sunoco gas station on Washington Street and assaulted an officer, the report says. A responding officer Tased Bobbitt while the lieutenant suffered a broken ankle, the report says. A victim said Bobbitt kicked her face and punched her.

April 21
DISORDERLY CONDUCT, INTERFERING WITH EMERGENCY CALL — At 9:06 p.m., Andrew Darling, 47, of Stoneycrest Drive was arguing with his wife and refused to leave the home, police say, and to her parents' home in Cromwell. The report says he screamed at her and grabbed the cell phone while she tried to call 911, however Darling said he didn't know who she was calling.

April 20
SIXTH-DEGREE LARCENY — At 7:20 p.m.,  Robert L. O'Brien Jr., 26, of Candlewood Hill Road, Higganum, was picked up by state police on an outstanding warrant.

FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH FINGERPRINTS, THIRD-DEGREE ASSAULT — Edward McMahon, 48, of East Main Street punched his live-in girlfriend twice in the face, police say. 

April 19
THIRD-DEGREE LARCENY, FRAUDULENT USE OF ATM — At 1:30 p.m., Jeffrey B. Ruffino, 23, of Country Side Lane was picked up on an outstanding warrant.

SECOND-DEGREE FAILURE TO APPEAR, USE OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA, POSSESSION DRUG PARAPHERNALIA IN A DRUG FACTORY, POSSESSION OF CS AND WITH INTENT TO SELL, INTERFERING WITH A SEARCH, DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY — On Nov. 17, 2011, after a lengthy police narcotics investigation officers found Derrick Wooding, 34, of Clinic Drive, New Britain, at a Ferry Street home flushing narcotics down a toilet. On March 23, 2012, he was convicted and released on Nov. 21, 2012, but had resumed selling crack, the report says. On April 19 at 4:30 p.m., police served a warrant on Wooding and Krystal L. Johnson, 22, of Main Street who tried to flush two crack pipes down the toilet, the report indicates, and Wooding tried to swallow crack and fought with an officer. A search revealed a large amount of cash and a cell phone, a digital scale, sandwich bags, razor blade, spoon with burnt heroin and a marijuana pipe, and used hypodermic needles. In Johnson's purse was steel wool, bags with heroin residue. Officers arrested a woman who called Wooding's cell phone looking to buy $100 worth of crack. Wooding, who's on parole, is a convicted felon for possession and sale of narcotics, possession of marijuana, criminal trespass, interfering with an officer, assault, interfering with search warrant, disorderly conduct, larceny, probation violation, threatening, failure to appear and breach of peace. He was arrested for the above and Johnson for use of drug paraphernalia, operation of drug factory, possession of controlled substances and with intent to sell, interfering with search warrant and destruction of property. She has an active warrant for second-degree failure to appear.

April 17
OPERATE UNREGISTERED VEHICLE AND WHEN LICENSE IS SUSPENDED At 10:37 a.m.— Daniel Caban, 26, of Pratt Street, Meriden, was driving a Honda Civic on Wadsworth Street.