Police Reports: A Threat to Bash Officers' Heads In?

Brad Phillips, 37, of Stratford has been embroiled in an ongoing dispute with police, which came to a head when Phillips believed a sergeant and a patrol officer were trying to set him up and catch him buying alcohol for a minor.

Phillips called a police dispatcher on a recorded line and said, "If he sends one more teenager up to my car to talk to me, I'm going to get out of the car and bash their/his f***ing head in with a baseball bat," according to the police report.

Police said they considered the statement to be "a viable threat" and applied for a warrant, which was approved by a Bridgeport Superior Court judge.

Monroe police arrested Phillips at his Milford Avenue home with assistance from Stratford officers Wednesday at 10:46 a.m.

He was charged with two counts of second-degree harassment and released on $10,000 surety bond for an Aug. 26 court date.

Police said officers had investigated a string of complaints made against Phillips and that he became angry at the officers and kept making "harassing, threatening and vulger phone calls to the Monroe Police Department over a period of several months.

Phillips had filed a complaint claiming he was being harassed by officers. Police said an internal investigation found "the officers responded properly to numerous citizen complaints regarding Phillips."

Stolen car parts

A $300 transmission and transmission transfer case and $400 airconditioning brackets for a 1970 Chevy Nova were reported stolen Wednesday from the back of the Rob's Monroe Auto Repair building at 165 Main St.

Police said the theft occured sometime overnight.

It's my truck

A dispute over the ownership of a Chevy truck turned ugly Wednesday evening, when a Monroe man allegedly started punching the vehicle in his stepfather's driveway on Webb Circle.

Nicholas Hespelt Jr., 18, of Spinning Wheel Road was charged with disorderly conduct and second-degree criminal mischief. He was released on $250 bond.

During an argument over the title of the truck, police said Hespelt became angry and punched the Chevy, denting it and cracking the windshield.

Officers later arrested Hespelt at a friend's house on Downs Road.

Two hours later ...

A Wheeler Road man was arrested for violation of a restraining order at 10:34 p.m. Wednesday, just two hours after the order was issued, according to police.

Leszek Rojek, 46, of Wheeler Road was charged with criminal violation of a restraining order and held on $50,000 bond for a Thursday court date.

According to the protective order, Rojek was to stay away from a woman living at the address. But police said Rojek entered the house and the victim complained.

Rojek told officers he went there because it's his house and he has lived there for 15 years, according to the report.