Police Arrest Assault Victim Who Said His Privates Were Broken

A Cromwell man who police say had his nose broken in a fight on Middletown's Main Street refused medical treatment so adamantly that it took five officers to place him in an ambulance.

On Nov. 21 at 9:19 a.m., police were sent to Main and Ferry streets for a fight. Robert J. Ciarlegio, 51, of Reiman Drive, Cromwell, was there with a bloody face and possible head injury, the report says. He appeared to officers to be heavily intoxicated and refused to say who assaulted him.

Witnesses told police it was a white male in his mid-30s who attacked Ciarlegio. He refused medical attention and became loud, vulgar and swore profusely, police say, while standing in front of Hair of the Dog Saloon.

Police said it looked like his nose was broken and Ciarlegio began screaming that his [penis] was broken and he needed Viagra to get it to work. He kept repeating that statement, the arrest report says, and told everyone around him to “go [expletive] themselves.” 

When the ambulance arrived, he grabbed the outside fence and refused to let go, pulling the fence out of the ground and it took five officers to remove him and put him in the ambulance, the report says. He kept spitting “bloody gobs of spit” at EMS crew and officers, so ambulance personnel put a mask on him. Ciarlegio then bit the mask and held it in his teeth, refusing to let go, officers said.

He was charged with breach of peace, interfering with an officer and third-degree criminal mischief.

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