A man facing a year in jail bolted from court and smashed head-first onto the streets of Derby Monday.
The man, Robert Mulready, 35, is apparently still on the loose.
According to an incident report prepared by court marshals and released by the state’s Judicial Branch Tuesday, Mulready was scheduled to be scheduled to a year in jail on attempted burglary and related charges out of Seymour.
According to the marshal’s report, Mulready appeared in court Monday at noon with Bruce Weiant, a public defender. Weiant hoped to delay Mulready’s sentencing to later this week.
Mulready inexplicably walked away from the defendant’s table and out of the court room, according to the report.
“I told him to stop,” court marshal Leon Walker wrote. “At the same time Judge (Burton) Kaplan stated ‘Get him, he is being sentenced today.’”
Mulready high-tailed it to the small court house lobby, where Walker asked another marshal to help stop him.
The second marshal, Robert Pysz, grabbed Mulready. The two began wrestling and fell through a set of doors and onto the floor of a small vestibule a few feet from the outside world.
Mulready broke free of Pysz and then plowed, head-first, into an exit door, cracking the glass.
“He proceeded to run down the stairs and away from the courthouse,” Walker wrote.
Pysz complained of neck and back pain as a result of the struggle.
State police were called in and Judge Kaplan ordered Mulready to be re-arrested.
State police at Troop I Tuesday morning said they were investigating a “criminal mischief complaint” at the court but wouldn’t elaborate “because it is under investigation.”
A message seeking more information was left with Lt. J. Paul Vance, the spokesman of the Department of Public Safety.
“To the best of my knowledge, he hasn’t been picked up,” Rhonda Stearley-Hebert, manager of communications for the Connecticut Judicial Branch, said Tuesday.
Mulready’s last known address was North Main Street in Naugatuck. He now faces additional charges of disorderly conduct and destruction of state property.
