WESTFIELD – A city man was arrested during an early Sunday morning disturbance after he was ejected from an Elm Street bar.
Officer Ricky Maciorowski reports he was in the area of Tommy D’s Court Yard Pub early Sunday morning when he observed an unruly shirtless male party involved in a disturbance outside the bar at 1:46 a.m. and approached to investigate.
He was joined almost immediately by Officer Michael Kane and, within minutes, by officers Francis Gaulin, Melissa Burns and Harry Sienkiewicz.
Kane reports that the suspect, later identified as Michael D. Hoynoski, 37, of 16 Furrow St., refused to leave the area and immediately became uncooperative and disruptive, yelling insults and calling officers by depreciating names before he charged at him.
When Kane was attacked, the other four officers came to his assistance and the five officers were needed to subdue Hoynoski. Kane reports that the struggle to control Hoynoski moved into the roadway causing concern for the safety of both the officers and the suspect as well as passing motorists.
Hoynoski was arrested for assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
Kane reports that bar staff said that Hoynoski had removed his shirt inside the bar and was escorted outside when he refused to put it back on.
Police Capt. Michael McCabe said this morning that that staff did not alert police of the disturbance.
He said that the management of a licensed establishment is required to report such disturbances when they occur and said that the owner of Tommy D’s has repeatedly failed to comply with that regulation.
He cited other recent incidents in which the bar staff have ejected troublesome patrons without alerting police that truculent persons have been pushed on to the public sidewalk.
In at least one incident, he said, both parties to a quarrel have been ejected, at the same time and through the same door although the bar does have both front and rear entrances which would allow the staff to physically separate combatants when they are removed to lessen the hazard of them continuing their dispute outside.
McCabe said that, like all such disturbances which involve a licensed establishment, the city’s license commission will be notified.
