Middletown Man Crashes Car After Fleeing Domestic Dispute
NEW YORK STATE POLICE
Major Patrick Regan
Troop F Commander
PRESS RELEASE
State Police in Greenville report the arrest of Clifton A. Tinnelly, age 19, of Middletown. On March 6, 2015 at approximately 7:00 PM, troopers from the SP Greenville station responded to a report of a domestic dispute in the parking lot of a business on Route 6 in the Town of Wawayanda. Troopers interviewed the female complainant, who stated that her ex-boyfriend Tinnelly confronted her and punched her in the face. Tinnelly then grabbed the woman by her head, and used it to break the driver’s side window on her car. Tinnelly fled the scene before troopers arrived. The woman was not seriously injured. Tinnelly had been previously served with an Order of Protection prohibiting him from having any contact with the woman. While interviewing the complainant, the troopers received a report of an automobile accident on nearby McBride Road. The troopers responded to the accident, and found Tinnelly, who had driven off the roadway after leaving the scene of the incident. Troopers placed Tinnelly under arrest. He was charged with Criminal Contempt in the first degree for violating the Order of Protection, criminal mischief in the fourth degree, and harassment in the second degree. He was arraigned before Town of Wawayanda Justice Shaun O’Connor, and remanded to Orange County Jail in lieu of $15,000 bail or $45,000 bond.
