WESTFIELD – A Springfield man has been held on $500 bail – twice – due, in part, to his “out of control anger” and “Explosive Disorder.”
Lorenzo Solla, 22, of 295 Orange St., Springfield, appeared before Judge Philip A. Contant in Westfield District Court yesterday and was arraigned, in two cases, on charges of stalking, making an obscene phone call, intimidating a witness and criminal harassment.
The charges arise from a failed relationship with a Westfield woman who complained to police in August that he had been harassing and threatening her.
Sgt. Edward Murphy reports that the woman showed him text messages from the man “which made direct threats toward her and her new boyfriend.” Murphy found that one of about 24 text messages the woman showed him asked her to “bring her new boyfriend to job corps where he works to fight.”
He also wrote, in a court document, that the victim showed him a posting on social networking website “referring to her as being sexually ‘Easy’”. The woman also showed Murphy “a picture message of Solla showing full frontal nudity. The victim told Murphy that “the picture message was offensive, repugnant, and she did not want or ask for the picture.”
The stalking and obscene phone calls charges ensued and, about a month later, Murphy reports, he again spoke with the victim who said that she and her mother have received multiple calls and text messages from Solla.
“Solla has asked, begged and demanded the charges be dropped”, Murphy reports, in text messages including “Bye snitch next time I hear from you the charges better be off” and “You want to lock me up then do so I’m NOT (obscene gerund deleted) SCARED.”
Other messages were more like entreaties in which he wrote “take off the charges that’s all I ask and ill (sic) stay out of your (obscene gerund deleted) life” and “Take the charges off ill (sic) leave your alone” but, when the victim asked to be left alone he replied “I will when you take the charges of (sic).”
In response to the messages and other phone contacts, Murphy filed a second case charging Solla with intimidation of a witness and criminal harassment.
When Solla appeared in court yesterday, Contant imposed bail of $500 cash surety or $5,000 bond, in each case, which Sola did not post.
In his stated reasons for ordering bail, Contant notes that Solla “admits having ‘Explosive Disorder’” and wrote “(The) underlying accusations suggest out of control anger towards (the) alleged victim…. His defiant statements saying he is ‘not afraid of being locked up, etc. suggest he will not follow court orders” if released.
Contant also noted that Solla has been the defendant of six prior abuse prevention orders brought by four different women.
Solla was held pending an Oct. 23 hearing.
