UPDATE: Ansonia police issued the following press release Tuesday morning:
On 08-10-2015 at approximately 2:20 p.m. Ansonia Police Officers were sent to 20 Clifton Avenue for a report of physical dispute with a possible knife involved. Upon officer’s arrival, a male, who was holding a blanket on his neck, told police that he had been cut by another male.
The male victim went on the explain that that he had been trying to break up a dispute between the suspect and the suspect’s girlfriend and that the suspect had come at the female with a machete and a box cutter. The male victim then took the machete away and he was then attacked by the suspect with the box cutter.
The victim sustained a severe laceration to the throat and was taken to Yale New Haven Hospital where he was treated. He was released later in the evening.
The suspect, identified as Mario Forbes, age 31 of 20 Clifton Avenue, was taken into custody on scene.
It was later learned that Forbes’ girlfriend was physically assaulted by him and sustained a head injury. She was transported to St. Vincent’s Hospital in Bridgeport where she was treated for a head injury and later released.
Mario Forbes was charged with:
Assault in the First Degree,
Assault in the Third Degree,
Strangulation in the Third Degree,
Reckless Endangerment First Degree, and
Disorderly Conduct
He was held on $150,000 bond and will be arraigned at Derby Superior Court on 08-11-2105.
Original post from Monday follows:
Ansonia police arrested a man Monday afternoon after they said he assaulted a woman at a Clifton Avenue home and then slashed another man in the neck.
The incident occurred about 2:20 p.m. at 20 Clifton Ave., a multi-family house at the intersection of Clifton Avenue and Cook Street.
Cota said police received a couple 911 calls reporting a domestic dispute at the address.
“A female was injured in the dispute,” Cota said. “We found out there was a male trying to protect the female, or help her from getting assaulted further.”
The man who assaulted the woman then “took out some type of sharp object” and slashed the other man in the neck, Cota said.
Cops arrested the alleged slasher.
Cota said at the scene about 3:15 p.m. that officers and detectives were still determining what charges the man, who he declined to identify, would face.
The man whose neck was slashed was transported to Yale-New Haven Hospital. Cota said the man’s injuries did not appear to be life-threatening.
The female victim of the initial assault was taken to St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport for treatment of a head injury which did not appear serious, Cota said.
Cota said police had not yet determined whether the man taken into custody lived at the address. All of the people inside the home at the time of the assault knew each other, he said.
Cops were still at the scene about 3:30 p.m. interviewing witnesses and looking for the weapon involved in the assault.
