JAVIER QUILES
WESTFIELD – An allegedly viciously violent city man has been held without right to bail after he was charged with assaulting each of the women he lives with on successive days.
Javier Quiles, 40, of 154 Northwest Road, was arraigned in separate cases on Friday and Tuesday on charges stemming from alleged assaults in his home.
Westfield Police Office Steven Carrington alleges in a court document that on July 12 Quiles assaulted a victim with whom, Carrington stated, he lives and who he has been dating for two years.
Carrington reports “The defendant walked up to the victim and hit her with a closed fist on the right side of her head knocking her down, and punched her several times in the ribs.”
Carington reports he then “kicked her several times in the ribs” before he “walked over to the kitchen counter and pulled the biggest knife in the rack out and told her that he was going to cut her so it would hurt a lot before she died.”
He then allegedly told the victim that he would “burn the house down by blowing up the propane tank so it looked like she died in the fire.”
The victim owns the house where she was living with Quiles, his wife (the second victim) and their daughter .
When the first victim was able to escape she ran into a neighbor’s house and asked the resident there to call police. Before the police arrived, Carrington reports, “Mr. Quiles just walked into the house uninvited, grabbed (the victim) in a bear hug and carried her back to her house.”
That incident ended with Quiles’ arrest, Carrington reports.
The next day, Det. Anthony Tsatsos reports, he heard from another resident of the house, Quiles’ wife, who said that he had assaulted her two days earlier.
Tsatsos reports in a court document that this second victim told him that on July 11 Quiles was angry because he had discovered that her son was living with her mother and was not in the custody of the Department of Children and Families as she had led him to believe. Tsatsos wrote that “Quiles was angry and began to slap her on both sides of the face” for about five minutes while “she was telling him to please stop.”
When he did stop, the victim told Tsatsos, she was bleeding from her ears, The woman said she avoided Quiles for the rest of the night and slept with her daughter, pretending to to be asleep when he left for work the next day.
The victim said that after he left she went to a an urgent care facility and was told “that her left eardrum was ruptured, resulting in hearing loss in that ear.”
Tsatsos reports that Quiles’ criminal history includes 33 entries for charges including assault and battery, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery on a child with injury, possession of a firearm and kidnapping. He also noted that Quiles has been the defendant of at least nine protective orders.
In the first recent case, Carrington charged Quiles with assault and battery on a family or household member, assault with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, kidnapping, breaking and entering in the daytime with intent to commit a felony while putting a person in fear and threatening to commit a crime.
In the second case, Tsatsos charged Quiles with assault and battery on a family or household member and assault and battery with serious bodily injury.
Qulies appeared before Judge William O’Grady on Tuesday who considered a prosecution motion in each case to detain Quiles pending trail because of his dangerousness.
O’Grady allowed both motions and set a date of Aug. 14 (ironically the the defendant’s birthday) for Quiles’ next pre-trial hearing in each case.
