Another Police Officer Laughing all the way..Ho, Ho, Ho,
Once Again, a law enforcement officer from Midletown, CT, is a serious offender and no one is removing him from his job. That's right it's okay to threaten and fatally harm someone your married too. With your own handgun, and if your a police officer the department looks the other way. I've bloged on far too many of these cases, often resulting in tragedy. The kicker here is because some half wit judge dimissed his case and because he is so loved by his fellow officers, now Tropper Rondinone is trying to get his arrest record removed from court documents. So folks, we have officers on police departments across the country who can go around and threaten the life of their spouse and get away with it. There are a lot of women married to police officers whose cries for help fall on deaf ears. So they remain living in fear because the very law that is suppose to protect them does not. And it's no wonder. And yes, this still makes my skin crawl each time I see these cases. For if someone had listened to my own mother who was married to a chicago violent crimes detective, perhaps, just perhaps we'd be spending the holidays together. Instead, the only place I can visit her is at her grave.
Dec 3, 2005
[CT] Trooper Rondinone arrested for dv crime "AGAIN"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/police_dv/message/4201
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/police_dv/message/4201
...Middletown police had been called to the (Rondidone) couple's home several times for domestic disputes, sources said... (Marlo Rondinone said) in court records that her estranged husband was verbally and physically abusive after he moved out on Feb. 5 and had threatened her with a handgun... In February, according to court records, Marlo Rondinone said Michael Rondinone went to her home and threatened that if she didn't give him what he wanted, he would "blow my head off,"... police arrested Rondinone in July, charging him with violating a restraining order... Trooper Rondinone is a young, hard-working trooper. He is very well thought of by his peers, his co-workers and management," LeBlanc said. "We as a union are going to work with him to help him get through this process."...
Dec 16, 2005
[CT] <DV> Repeat violator Trooper Rondinone wants record erased.
...Two months after a judge dismissed a domestic dispute charge against Michael E. Rondinone, the state police trooper is now seeking a special form of probation following a second arrest... Rondinone, 35, applied for accelerated rehabilitation, a special form of probation for first-time offenders that would give him the opportunity to have his arrest record erased...
TWO ARTICLES. 1 FROM JULY. 1 FROM 1999
ACCUSED TROOPER GETS DESK WORK -
FACES CHARGE LINKED TO RESTRAINING ORDER
The Hartford Courant, (CT)
July 27, 2005
GREGORY SEAY; Courant Staff Writer
Courant Staff Wrier Josh Kovner contributed to this story.
A state trooper whose estranged wife claims he threatened her with a gun has been relieved of his badge and sidearm and is charged with violating a restraining order, authorities said Tuesday.
Michael E. Rondinone, 34, a former Middletown police officer who joined state police in 2001, is free on $2,500 bail pending an Aug. 26 appearance in Superior Court in Middletown. He was arrested Saturday by East Hampton police.
A state police spokesman, Sgt. J. Paul Vance, said Rondinone, who is assigned to the Troop I Barracks in Bethany, has been temporarily assigned to administrative duties pending the outcome of the criminal complaint.
Vance said Rondinone isn't being handled any differently in the wake of a fatal incident June 15 in the parking lot of a Middletown courthouse in which retired State Trooper Michael Bochicchio Jr. fatally shot his estranged wife and wounded her lawyer before killing himself.
Reached Tuesday, Rondinone, a Middletown resident who served eight years with the Middletown police, referred questions to his attorney and to state police.
Family court records indicate Rondinone's estranged wife, Marlo Rondinone, 43, of Hog Hill Road in East Hampton, was granted a restraining order against her husband after she filed for divorce in February. The couple, married in Springfield in 2003, have two daughters, aged 2 and 1.
According to an affidavit Marlo Rondinone filed with the court, her estranged husband was verbally and physically abusive after he moved out on Feb. 5. She claimed in court papers that he had previously threatened her with his handgun.
"Because he is a state trooper and has a gun, I fear for my life during his violent, uncontrollable outbursts and threats,'' her affidavit says.
In a Feb. 20 incident, Michael Rondinone came to their house about 1:30 p.m. and threatened that if his wife didn't give him what he wanted, he "will blow my head off,'' the affidavit says. He began slinging papers, a dish and other items that were on a counter onto the floor, then grabbed and shook her.
Another time, she claims in papers, he punched her in her upper arm.
Marlo Rondinone could not be reached Tuesday for comment.
According to court records, Marlo Rondinone was also the subject of a restraining order request. Salvatore Salafia of Middletown, Marlo Rondinone's first husband, last November sought a restraining order against his former wife after she allegedly verbally harassed and threatened him during their 11-year-old daughter's weekend visit at his home.
