Crime & Safety

Police Find Oxycodone, Marijuana in Home With Three Children

Middletown officers say they arrested a 31-year-old woman with drug possession and sales after the SWAT team searched her Santangelo Circle house looking for her husband.

 

Middletown Police report the following arrests:

DISORDERLY CONDUCT — On Jan. 13, police were called to a physical domestic at the 1400 block of Town Colony Drive. Timothy Williams, 49, was arguing with a victim over his drug habits; he grabbed her pocketbook and looked through it. They grabbed it back and forth a few times until the strap broke and Williams hit the victim in the head with it. Her forehead was injured.

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RISK OF INJURY — On Jan. 13 at 7:30 a.m., Colin P. Maroney, 36, of Bamforth Road, Haddam, turned himself in on an outstanding warrant.

TWO COUNTS SECOND-DEGREE FAILURE TO APPEAR — On Jan. 13, Kristina Thompson, 20, of Westwynd Terrace turned herself into police.

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FIRST-DEGREE FAILURE TO APPEAR — On Jan. 12 at 12:15 p.m., bounty hunters brought Salvatore M. DiLoreto, 44, of Cloverdale Circle, Wethersfield, into Middletown Police on a warrant.

SECOND- DEGREE FAILURE TO APPEAR — On Jan. 12 at 9:06 p.m., Jordan Derr, 20, of Glover Place was stopped by police while driving with a misuse of marker plate. He was found with an outstanding warrant.

BREACH OF PEACE — On Jan. 12 at 8:15 a.m., Mark Bakowski, 24, of Sisk Street was at the scene of a domestic. A woman told officers she saw a dispute between her husband and her son, Bakowski. They were arguing in the bathroom, the report says, and the husband grabbed the son by the throat and threw him to the ground by the bathtub. The husband said Bakowski punched him in the face in the kitchen and pushed him to the ground after throwing a Rubik’s Cube at him. Bakowski said the man woke him up yelling about money, he told officers he only jumped up and gently pushed his the elder away.

USE OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA — On Jan. 11, Timothy R. Rau, 50, of Evergreen Avenue was seen by police fumbling with an object behind a concrete wall under the Route 9 overpass on deKoven Drive. He told them, “I was just walking with my wife and we wanted shelter from the wind because it is warm back there.” Police said it was not a particularly windy day. He denied having anything illegal on him, police said. They found a broken crack pipe in his front pocket with copper wire and burnt residue. He told police he found it on the ground and picked it up so kids wouldn’t get it. Police say his appearance was “sickly. He had large weeping, bloody sores covering his heads, face and hands” and his pockets has bloody rags, but told police, “I don’t smoke crack or nothing like that.”

POSSESSION CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, AND WITH INTENT TO SELL, DISTRIBUTION OF NEAR SCHOOL, POSSESSION OF NARCOTICS, NON-STUDENT POSSESSING DRUGS NEAR SCHOOL, USE OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA — On Jan. 11 at 5:45 a.m., Lakisha S. Brown, 31, of Santangelo Circle was in an apartment that was the subject of a drug search and seizure by the narcotics unit, SWAT team and patrol division, after numerous citizen complaints. The suspect is the husband of Brown, who police say has many aliases, and they have three small children. Police say he is known to have a handgun. The SWAT team set up a perimeter around the apartments, owned by the Middletown Housing Authority, knocked on the door and after no answer, forced entry, the report says. Brown was found in the upstairs bedroom with a 12-year-old son, 1-year-old and 3-month-old daughters. Officer smelled marijuana inside. Brown said the husband does not live with her and she has no idea where he was, according to the report. She admitted to smoking marijuana but not selling it. Police found a dresser full of men’s clothing, shoes, cologne, meds prescribed to him and a plastic bag accessible to the children with .5 grams of marijuana and $518 in cash inside. Police also found a handwritten list of names, nicknames and numbers, thought to be a client list, with profits and sales of pot. Police also found marijuana packaging material, a blue duffel bag with a marijuana grinder and residue. In the basement, police found a gallon plastic bag with 14.3 grams of marijuana in a five-gallon pail; and another with baggies and marijuana residue. A canine confirmed the pot. In the kitchen the canine found a bag with 3 grams of marijuana inside and two more on the counter unsecured and an orange bottle with five white round tablets labeled “512,” 5mg each of Oxycodone. Brown’s mother was there, and told police she had been with the husband for 12 years. Brown, police say, was verbally combative and rude throughout the search, yelled and swore at officers outside. Later, Brown said she didn’t know her husband’s date of birth and cajoled officers, saying, “You ain’t got [expletive] on me” and she was going to beat the case in court.

SECOND-DEGREE FAILURE TO APPEAR — On Jan. 10 at 7:05 p.m., Rodney K. Jackson, 21, of Maple Place turned himself in on an outstanding warrant from Waterbury.

THIRD-DEGREE LARCENY — On Jan. 10, Ashley A. Mercado, 18, of Woodbury Circle turned herself in on an outstanding warrant.

OPERATION MOTOR VEHICLE WHEN LICENSE SUSPENDED, TRAVELING UNREASONABLE SPEED — On Jan. 8, Earle W. Collins, 39, of Middletown Road, Berlin, was driving 69 mph in a 45 mph zone on Route 9 at Miller Street with a suspended license.

INSURANCE FAILS MINIMUM, OPERATE UNREGISTERED VEHICLE — On Jan. 8, Kevin L. Hickman, 32, of Pearl Street was driving on Washington Street with no front plate.

DUI — On Jan. 8 at 10:08 p.m., Brandon T. Guimares, 22, of Walnut Street was seen staggering and holding up his cell phone and videotaping police while they were investigating a suspicious person. His eyes were bloodshot and glossed over and he smelled of alcohol. He was given a verbal warning for walking while under the influence. At 10:46 p.m., police responded to the 600 block of Main Street for a DUI report. Guimares was sitting in the driver’s seat of a Chevrolet Cavalier with the keys in the ignition and the engine running. He failed a sobriety test. His breath test at 11:12 p.m. registered at .231 and at 11:30 was .229. He later told police, “you guys are some cool [expletive] cops” and then swore at police officers at the front desk.

OPERATION MOTOR VEHICLE IN VIOLATION OF LICENSE CLASSIFICATION, AND WHEN LICENSE IS SUSPENDED, INSURANCE FAILS MINIMUM — On Jan. 6 at 3:18 p.m., a woman was driving a Ford Escape without a front plate at Washington and Bernie O’Rourke Drive. When stopped, she said it was not her car. Police called Lintasha C. Lawrence, 29, of Main Street, the owner, who showed up and was charged.


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