Police: Prescott Street Man Tasered, Officers Injured in Wednesday Incident

A Meriden Man remains in state custody in lieu of a $25,000 bond after police said he attacked his girlfriend and then fought officers, causing minor injuries to four of them, before finally being subdued by a stun gun early Wednesday morning.

Prescott Street resident Kalvin Ratliff was arraigned in Meriden Superior Court this week on charges including second-degree assault, first-degree strangulation, two counts of threatening, reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct, interfering with police, four counts of assault on an officer and failure to submit fingerprints.

A judge lowered his bail from $150,000 to $25,000, according to court records, but he remains in the custody of the state.

“Officers responded to a Prescott Street home around 3:45 a.m. and arrived to find a woman screaming and arguing coming from within the home,” Det. Lt. Mark Walerysiak said Friday.

“Officers were speaking with the woman when they heard Kalvin (Ratliff) in the kitchen and heard a noise as he left the home and onto a porch through a back door. Officers went to the porch and found him leaning over a railing with his hands tucked into stomach,” he said.

According to the police report, the officers approached Ratliff and asked him to remove his hands and back away from the railing several times, but the 23-year-old failed to respond to the requests. When the officers went to grab him, Ratliff became combative and began swinging punches, police said.

Police continued to attempt to subdue the man, at which point Walerysiak said he wrestled them down the porch stairs, causing the officers and Ratliff to all fall, before eventually using the stun gun to get him into handcuffs. Even after being placed in cuffs, Walerysiak said he continued to combat officers and refused to let them search him, spitting at them and moving violently as they tried.

Officers eventually got Ratliff into a police cruiser, but he continued to act violently according to the report, spitting in an officers face and all over the back seat of the vehicle.

Four officers were treated for minor injuries following the incident, police said.

After speaking with the victim, Walerysiak said officers learned that Ratliff had been drinking and allegedly entered a room where she was sleeping and punched her repeatedly in the stomach and choked her.

“At one point, (Ratliff) picked up a pair of scissors and threatened to stab her then grabbed a space heater and lifted it above his head and threatened to throw it at her,” Walerysiak said.

Ratliff did not enter a plea during his arraignment, court records showed. He is due back in Meriden Superior Court on June 19.

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