Man Accused of Assaulting Woman in Supermarket Strike

A Stratford man faces assault charges for allegedly ramming an unsuspecting female shopper at Shop Rite because he thought she was about to ram him and he has been a victim of “supermarket intimidation” before and told police he was not going to be intimidated again, according to the Connecticut Post.

The Post reports that Joseph Jessup, a 59-year-old engineer with Hewlett Packard, was arrested for the incident in which the 53-year-old woman, also from Stratford, suffered an injury to her upper lip.

Jessup is accused of ramming the woman with a hand-held shopping basket while she was placing items into her shopping cart, according to the Post.

Read the full story at the Connecticut Post here.

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