WESTFIELD – A Southwick woman is facing assault and vandalism charges as a result of her response to a telephone call she answered from the girlfriend of the man with whom she shares a home.
Southwick police officer Michael Westcott reports in a document filed at Westfield District Court that he was called to a Summer Drive home about 3:30 a.m. Tuesday in response to a complaint and met a resident outside who said “she trashed my house.”
Westcott noticed that the man and several lacerations on his shoulder blade and bleeding puncture wounds on his rib cage but he declined medical attention.
Westcott said that when he entered the house he found it “was destroyed with all the contents of the fridge, cabinets and everything else that was breakable smashed.”
He spoke with the female resident, identified as Robin Wilcox, 41, of 131 Summer Drive, who was “hysterical and screaming”.
The officer reports that when he asked Wilcox what had happened “she began yelling that ‘he is seeing another girl’ and ‘he has been cheating on me’.”
Although Wilcox spoke of past domestic issues, when she focused on the current issue she said that the man had came home and “admitted to her that he has been seeing another lady but that he wants to work it out.”
The victim told Westcott that he had been sleeping when the other woman called his cellphone and Wilcox answered.
He said that after she answered the phone “she went crazy smashing it and everything in the house.” He said that his injuries were sustained when Wilcox threw things at him which included glassware.
He said that Wilcox then went outside, started up his truck, drove it into a wall and then backed it into her own vehicle “in an attempt to smash it.”
Westcott reports that when Wilcox was booked she was found to have the keys to the victim’s truck in her pocket.
Westcott said that Wilxox listed a litany of complaints about the victim’s past behavior but when asked about the events of that morning “she stated that ‘he helped smash everything’.”
Wilcox also told the officer that she had been injured by the man saying he dislocated her thumb but declined medical attention.
Westcott reports that after speaking with Wilcox he began to take pictures of the results of the woman’s alleged rampage in the residence and told the victim that he was arresting Wilcox for domestic assault and battery.
The officer was told by the victim that he did not want to pursue criminal charges, would not make a formal statement and would not allow the officer to make any more pictures.
Westcott advised the man of his protective order options but he did not avail himself of them.
Wilcox was arraigned later that day in Westfield District Court before Judge Philip A. Contant who enjoined her making any threats or violence toward the victim but released her on her personal recognizance pending a Sept. 12 hearing on charges of assault and battery, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and vandalizing property.
