Middletown Police Blotter: July 5-12

report the following incidents:

POSSESSION NARCOTICS — On July 12 at 5 p.m., Dontroy Lewis, 40, of Court Street was found with an outstanding warrant from Middletown at Hartford Police headquarters.

SECOND-DEGREE BREACH OF PEACE — On July 12 at 4:02 p.m., police were called to George Street for a domestic disturbance. Melanie Talbot, 42, of George Street told police her ex-husband, Robert P. Talbot, 45, of Nutmeg Lane, East Hampton, picked up their two children (18-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter) and she met him at the pool when he rolled down his car window and yelled at her, the report says. They argued about visitation and how their children had been left home alone on various occasions, the report says, and Robert called her a "fat [expletive]." Melanie said he slapped her cheek and sped off in the car, almost hitting her with the door, the report says. Robert said all his actions were in self-defense, police report. Both were charged.

OPERATION MOTOR VEHICLE WHEN LICENSE SUSPENDED — On July 5 at 8:07 p.m., Jason Lee Manns, 34, of Grand Street was driving a Ford Taurus on Grand Street past an officer who recognized him as a convicted felon and known crack cocaine trafficker, the report says. On June 15, 2010, police say, Manns was convicted of possession of a hallucinogen and with intent to sell, received a seven-year jail sentence, suspended. Manns drove away from the officer, the report says, then the car was seen at Lincoln/Liberty streets with Manns walking away, with him saying into a cell phone, "ahhh, they got me." He was found with a cell phone and $387 in cash, the report says.

POSSESSION NARCOTICS, ATTEMPT TO COMMIT CRIME, NON-STUDENT POSSESSING DRUG PARAPHERNALIA NEAR SCHOOL — On July 5 at 8 p.m., police arrested a known drug dealer with "a significant amount of U.S. currency" and the cell phone rang with Gina Michel Spano, 37 of Russell Court asking to buy a "forty" or crack cocaine worth $40, the report says. The officer said he would meet her at It's Only Natural Market at Main and Liberty streets, where they apprehended her, the report says. A search revealed $40 in cash and a smoking pipe with a copper wool filter and her cell phone registered the detective's phone number, the report details.

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