News Next Door: Naked Doylestown Man Arrested After Gnawing on Woman’s Head

Naked, screaming and bloody from jumping out a second-story window, a Doylestown man has been arrested in northern Pennsylvania after attacking a woman and “gnawing on her head,” according to state police.

Richard Cimino Jr., 20, is in custody and faces multiple charges in connection with the attack, which Pennsylvania State Police said occurred last Friday.

The bizarre attack happened in the borough of Hawley in Wayne County.

State Trooper David Aulisio told Doylestown Patch Wednesday night that the incident happened between 4:30 and 5:15 a.m. on Hudson Street in the tiny town, home to about 1,200 people.

Aulisio said it started when Cimino drove his car off the road behind some houses on Hudson Street.

He then got out of the car and stripped off his clothes, leaving on just his underwear.

He headed toward a nearby home, where police said he tried to break into 634 Hudson St. The man who lives there woke up to hear the suspect pushing on the doorknob, police said. The homeowner yelled at the suspect to get away from his house.

At first, Cimino refused to leave, Aulisio said Wednesday. Then, he turned and fled northwest, up Hudson Street.

Cimino stopped about 900 feet away, at a house at 521 Hudson St. He stripped off his underwear on the way, police said. The naked man then broke into the home, which was vacant, and made his way up to the second floor, Aulisio said.

An image from Google maps shows a home near that address as an older, two-story white home with green trim. It sits nearly flush with Hudson Street, with a short sidewalk and hard-packed earth between the front stoop and the road.

Once upstairs, Cimino jumped out the second-story window, “severely injuring his arms and extremities,” Aulisio said.

Now bleeding heavily, the suspect crossed through the home’s garage and headed back toward the street, where he encountered two women walking nearby, Aulisio said.

Cimino tackled one of the women to the ground, covering her in his blood, the trooper said. Then, he began to “gnaw at [her] head, screaming like an animal,” Aulisio said.

The women managed to get away and ran to call the police.

The borough of Hawley has a part-time police department, and state police troopers based out of Honesdale cover the borough during their off hours, Aulisio said.

The two responding troopers, Cunningham and Pritchyk, found Cimino lying in the road, bloody and severely injured.

Yet he still resisted, displaying “delusional behavior” and lunging at the troopers as they approached him, Aulisio said. Trooper Cunningham fired a Taser at the suspect to subdue him, police said.

Yet he still resisted. Once an ambulance arrived to treat him, police said, he punched one of the first responders in the face, causing a “minor injury.”

Once the suspect was subdued, he was taken to Geisinger Community Medical Center in Scranton, police said.

Aulisio said Cimino is expected to be transferred to a hospital in the Philadelphia area to have plastic surgery to repair some of his injuries.

According to the website Times-Tribune.com of Scranton, Cimino now faces a multitude of charges -- from burglary to indecent exposure to aggravated assault.

Aulisio said toxicology tests still are pending.