CLEVELAND, Ohio — A 55-year-old man is accused of grabbing and squeezing the testicles of two Cleveland police officers while he was handcuffed during his December arrest.
A grand jury this week charged Christopher Muldoon, of Cleveland, with two counts of felonious assault on a peace officer in the Dec. 7 scuffle at wife’s parents’ house on Fairview Court in Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood.
Muldoon is scheduled to appear at a March 1 arraignment hearing.
Police got called to the house about 8:30 p.m. for a report of man with nunchucks threatening his family, according to a police report.
Officers arrived and found a man on the front porch holding a pair of nunchucks who said Muldoon was inside and making threatening comments, the report says.
Officers went inside and Muldoon locked himself in a bedroom and refused to come out, the report says. Officers learned that Muldoon had several outstanding arrest warrants, including one for a telephone harassment charge out of Geauga County, the report says.
Muldoon repeatedly told the officers through the locked door that he wasn’t going back to jail, and that “Christopher isn’t here,” according to the report. He also told his wife that police can’t come into the bedroom without a warrant, the report says.
After several minutes, Muldoon’s wife opened the door and let officers into the room, the report says. Muldoon grabbed a beer bottle, an officers talked him into putting it down.
Officers tried to handcuff Muldoon, but he resisted and the three began to scuffle, reports say.
The men fell onto a mattress on the floor, the report says. The officers grabbed Muldoon’s arms, but he kept “thrashing” his body, the report says. A third officer came into the room and grabbed his legs, but he continued to resist, the report says.
Muldoon hit his head on the floor during the struggle, police wrote in the report.
The officers eventually got his hands behind his back and placed him in two sets of handcuffs. Muldoon sat up, again said he wasn’t going to jail, spit on the floor near one of the officers and kicked that officer in the knee, the report says.
Police stood him up by his arms and led him out of the house. Muldoon, still in handcuffs, reached back behind him and grabbed an officer in the groin, the report says.
The officer called out in pain. Muldoon told the officer “You like it, don’t you,” and called the officer an anti-gay slur, the report says.
The officers picked up Muldoon by the arms and legs and carried him out of the room horizontally. They came to a narrow stairwell and let him stand to walk down the steps. That’s when Muldoon again reached behind him and grabbed another officer in the crotch, the report says. That officer also yelled out in pain.
Police got Muldoon into the back of a police car and took him to University Hospital to be checked out after his wife said he suffers from high blood pressure, the report says. The officers then booked him into the city jail.
Muldoon was released without charges in December.
Muldoon pleaded guilty to attempted felonious assault in 2012, when police said he tried to hit a South Euclid Police sergeant with a beer bottle.
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