Middletown Arrests: Dec. 21 to Jan. 1

Middletown and State Police report the following incidents: 

Jan. 1

THIRD-DEGREE ASSAULT, SECOND-DEGREE STRANGULATION, SECOND-DEGREE UNLAWFUL RESTRAINT — Ronnie Holley, 54, of Flower Street was taken into custody at home on an outstanding warrant. He has an extensive criminal record, the report says, and is a felon.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT — At 7:06 a.m., the upstairs neighbor of Terence D. Wilford, 44, of Silver Street called police to report he was yelling, arguing, making noise, and came up and broke a window pane on her door, the repot says. Wilford, who smelled heavily of alcohol, police say, told them he had been arguing with his girlfriend all night after he went to sleep on Dec. 31 at 8 p.m. and she woke him, nagging him. When he pushed her away, Wilford says, she put her hands around his neck, and he broke the window pane when asking for help. The girlfriend told police he owned the home and had woken up in a rage and became violent; the neighbor added he had, since 1 a.m., yelled he wanted "everyone out" of the home. The neighbor, the report says, "acts like this all the time" and is the landlord.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT, THIRD-DEGREE ASSAULT — At 12:35 a.m., Anthony Longo, 23, of Main Street was fighting with another man on the fourth floor of his apartment building, the report says, and was heavily intoxicated. His girlfriend, who was there with her friend and her boyfriend, told police Longo was agitated and aggressive with her and when the friend's boyfriend intervened, Longo pushed him and then punched the female victim in the face. 

THIRD-DEGREE ASSAULT —At 2:45 a.m., Thomas Barry, 31, of Park Street, Hartford, was at Westridge Lane, at the home of his wife, whom he'd been separated from for the past month and a half, and assaulted her, the report says. The wife said she had a couple coworker friends over to celebrate the New Year, heard the garage door open and saw it was him. The report says he confronted the friends, swearing, and told them to leave, punched a man several times and threw him on the kitchen floor, then pushed his wife, causing her to fall. At 5:45 a.m., police found him at his Hartford home.

Dec. 21

PROPERTY DAMAGE — Staff from Middlesex Community College on Training Hill Road called State Police Troop F, Westbrook, about deep tire tracks in the grassy field next to the upper parking lot, according to the report. The estimated cost of damage is $500 and there is no time frame as to when the damage took place, according to the report.