JERRY MAULDIN
WESTFIELD – A disturbance call turned into something of a melee for officers attempting to break up a fight on Taylor Avenue early Saturday morning.
Officers Francis Gaulin and David Burl responded to Taylor Avenue after multiple callers reported two men were fighting at 12:27 a.m.
Gaulin reports that the officers arrived to find about ten people in the street who were focused on two combatants who were pushing and shoving each other.
He reports that a shirtless man was yelling at another man and waving his arms as he advanced while the other man egged him on.
When Gaulin saw the shirtless man raise his fist to strike he grabbed the man’s arm but the other man twisted away from him and, as he was attempting to control the man, a woman (later found to be his mother) attacked him from behind.
Gaulin passed the man he was attempting to control to Burl as he fended off the woman and then found that a man had grabbed him around his neck and pulled him backward.
ALBERT MAIMONE
Burl managed to unlimber his Taser to assist Gaulin, while at the same time trying to take custody of the first man, and fired at the man assaulting Gaulin, bringing that man to his knees.
Sgt. Jeffrey Baillargeon, and Officers Patrick Shea and Gary Hagar arrived to assist the officers and the situation was stabilized.
The shirtless man, Jerry D. Mauldin, 30, and the man who came to his assistance, Albert M. Maimone, 35, both of 30 Taylor Ave., Apt. 5, were each arrested for disorderly conduct. Mauldin was also charged with assault and assault and battery on a public servant while Maimone was also charged with resisting arrest.
A criminal complaint for resisting arrest was filed against Mauldin’s mother for interfering with her son’s arrest and a criminal complaint for disorderly conduct was filed against the man who had been involved in the initial disturbance with Maudlin.
Both men appeared in Westfield District Court before Judge Philip A. Contant yesterday.
Mauldin was released pending a Dec. 8 hearing while Maimone, who pleaded guilty, was fined $100 and assessed $50.
