Easton Man Charged With Assault, Robbery

A 19-year-old Easton man whose own mother told police last April her son attacked his girlfriend and a man who tried to help the girlfriend is in jail following a Palmer Township traffic stop that led to drug charges.

The suspect, Elizaul Trujillo, is charged with robbery, theft and other counts in the April 29, 2011 attack in Easton, according to court records.

The records also say Trujillo, of 40 S. 8^th St., is unemployed, has an 11^th-grade education, has a juvenile record and smokes marijuana three to four times a day.

Police stopped Trujillo and others in a black Nissan Altima around 1:55am Saturday on the 3500 block of Nazareth Road (Route 248) in Palmer.

The records say Trujillo, who was in the front passenger seat, was sitting on 13 small bags of crack cocaine and three small bags of white powder cocaine.

A second man from the car – Isaiah Terrell Martinez, 21, of 1635 Northampton St., first floor, Wilson -- is charged with marijuana possession. Police also found more than $200 in his pants pocket.

A criminal complaint filed in last April’s incident tells the following story:

Police responded to the 800 block of Ferry Street at 5:05am for a report of a fight. They talked to a man who said he was on his way to work and was walking to a bus stop when he was attacked from behind. He said that his attacker – later identified as Trujillo – took his Samsung Sleek cell phone, valued at $160, and iPod earphones, valued at $30.

The man said Trujillo stopped hitting him when confronted by a group of women in a vehicle. Trujillo then walked west toward 9^th Street. The man was taken to , where it was discovered he had a hematoma on the top of his head. The man also suffered abrasions to his face and forehead and to both his hands, knees and elbows.

Trujillo’s girlfriend, meanwhile, told police she and Trujillo got into an argument in his residence and he began punching her. She called her mother, then told Trujillo she wanted to leave. Trujillo pulled her black Android cell phone with a purple back – valued at $600 -- from her hands and said she wasn’t going anywhere.

He would not give her cell phone back and repeatedly punched her in the face. She eventually ran out of the residence.

She said that while she was on the 800 block of Ferry Street the man on his way to work tried to help her and was then knocked down by Trujillo.

Police also spoke to Trujillo’s mother, who had made her way to the 800 block of Ferry. She told police she saw her son attack his girlfriend at his residence and later attack the man on the street.

In the Palmer Township traffic stop, according to the records, police spotted the black Nissan on northbound Route 248 by the 25^th Street Shopping Center and discovered from a license plate check that the registration had expired in February. They made the traffic stop on the 3500 block of Route 248 (called Nazareth Road) near Kingston Road.

The records say Trujillo used a false identity – that of his brother with a date of birth a little less than a year before his.

In last April’s incident, Trujillo is charged with two counts each of robbery, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property, simple assault and harassment. In the traffic stop, he is charged with manufacture, deliver and possess with intent to deliver a controlled substance, false identification to law enforcement and possession of a controlled or counterfeit substance.

He was arraigned later Saturday morning by on-duty District Judge Todd Strohe of Bangor and committed to . Bail in both cases was set at $50,000.

Martinez, meanwhile, was charged with manufacturre, deliver and possess with intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession of a controlled or counterfeit substance and possession of a small amount of marijuana. He also was arraigned Saturday by Strohe and committed to county prison after failing to post $10,000 bail.

Like Trujillo, he is unemployed, has an 11^th-grade education and smokes marijuana three to four times a day, the records say.

The above information was supplied by District Judge Todd Strohe's office. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.