Woman Accused Of Beating On Teen After Joining Fight at Vernon Park

VERNON, CT — A 44-year-old Vernon woman is accused in a warrant of jumping into the fray during a teen fight at Henry Park in Vernon. She was subsequently charged with various crimes, police said.

Police Monday released the heavily redacted warrant from the July 2 incident.

According to a warrant. the fight was pre-arranged between two rival teens. After the brawl broke out, a caller told police that an adult was beating up a teen and that a knife might be involved. The adult was later identified as Denise Robinson.

She left the park and police pulled over her car, according to a warrant. An officer approached it with gun drawn because of the knife report, but a search of the car and a search of Robinson by a female state trooper who came to assist produced no weapon, according to a warrant.

The fight was broken up by teen spectators after a third teen jumped in, but after arriving late to the brawl, things grew heated again when Robinson jumped in and began kicking and punching one of the two original combatants, according to a warrant.

Parents of the "attacked" teen decided to press charges, according to a warrant.

Robinson posted a $25,000 bond after being charged with second-degree reckless endangerment, third-degree assault, risk of injury to a minor and second-degree breach of peace and is scheduled for a second court appearance on July 29, according to a warrant.

Separately, one of the original fighting teens drew a knife at the third-teen-in after the fight was broken up, according to the warrant, and Robinson was not held accountable for the weapon.