Police: Shelton Man Pushed Ex-Wife Down Stairs

Police arrested a Shelton man Dec. 16 after he allegedly went to his ex-wife’s home, threatened to kill her and then pushed her down a flight of stairs. The woman fractured her neck and her back in the fall. 

Scott Robert Wasilewski, 45, appeared in Superior Court in Milford Thursday, where Judge Richard Arnold refused to lower Wasilewski’s $500,000 bond.

Judge Arnold said he wouldn’t lower his bond because Wasilewski has a history of domestic violence.

There’s nothing that leads me to believe other than on his release there will be further incidents,” Arnold said, citing the past domestic violence cases.

Wasilewski was not supposed to have any contact with his ex-wife under a protective order. Yet he showed up at his ex-wife’s residence Dec. 16, according to Shelton Detective Ben Trabka. 

Wasilewski started fighting with his ex-wife, then pushed her down the stairs leading to her basement, Trabka said. Wasilewski then allegedly threatened to kill the woman. 

She was injured in the fall, and Wasilewski agreed to call a friend to drive her to the hospital. But the woman asked the friend to get her away from the house, then immediately call an ambulance, according to Trabka.

Wasilewski was charged with second-degree assault, first-degree burglary, violation of a protective order, reckless endangerment, and four counts of second-degree threatening. 

The couple had recently divorced, according to statements made in court. 

Wasilewski is already facing one count of second-degree threatening in a previous incident with the woman. 

Shelton police have an arrest warrant pending to charge him with criminal possession of a firearm, Trabka said. The warrant will likely be served next week, he said. 

Wasilewski was supposed to surrender all firearms as part of the terms of the protective order, but police said he still possessed a .22-caliber rifle. 

In court Thursday, Wasilewski’s attorney Dominick Thomas said the man also had other guns still kept at the couple’s former house, where the wife is living now. 

Thomas said Wasilewski doesn’t have access to the guns because of the protective order. 

Thomas had asked Judge Arnold to lower Wasilewski’s bond so he could continue to earn money to pay for child support. 

Wasilewski has not entered any pleas in the case, and was scheduled to return to Superior Court in Milford on Jan. 30. 

He is being held in the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield.

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