Sheriff Koutoujian Breaks Up Assault

Middlesex County Sheriff Peter Koutoujian stopped an assault in progress on Thursday immediately after he participated in the Harvard University graduation ceremony, according to the Boston Herald.

Cambridge Police arrested Vincent Breveleri, 42, of Roslindale, on Thursday after Koutoujian broke up an assault in which Breveleri was allegedly involved. Police charged Breveleri with assault and battery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

Koutoujian, who had just embraced Oprah Winfrey in a hug during the ceremony, noticed a man yelling at a woman. Koutoujian watched the pair, at first thinking they were just having an argument. He then witnessed the woman stand up from a bench and the man push her, according to Herald. The woman nearly fell back over the bench. Kotoujian then saw the man head butt the woman.

As Koutoujian approached the pair yelling at them to stop,  the man spit in the woman’s face, according to the Herald. As the man was leaving the scene, Koutoujian flagged down two Middlesex County Correction officers who arrested Breveleri.