Middletown Police have arrested a man who is accused of threatening and strangling his girlfriend during an argument on Monday.
Officers were called to a domestic incident in Middletown around 3:30 p.m. after a woman said she had been assaulted by her boyfriend. The boyfriend was later identified by police as 27-year-old Michael Mangini.
When officers arrived to the address, police found the woman, who said she had been assaulted by Mangini. She told them that she ran out of the house and had been hiding in a neighbor's yard when she called police.
Officers approached the house where Mangini was last seen inside and did not find him. His vehicle was no longer in the area, police said.
According to police, the woman told them Mangini could be in possession of knives or BB guns and he was highly agitated.
The woman told police that Mangini had been living in the basement of her grandparent's house with her for a couple months and she wanted to end their relationship. When the woman told Mangini in a phone call that she wanted to break up, she said that he became upset.
When Mangini arrived home, the woman said he came storming down to the basement and began kicking things and screaming while she was sitting on the bed. When he stopped yelling, she said he stood directly over her with clenched fists, jumped on top of her and hit the side of her head, knocking her glasses off.
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While Mangini was on top of the woman, she said he placed his hand around her throat for several seconds, and impeded her ability to breathe. She said she was constantly screaming at him and pleaded for him to get off of her.
After he got off of her, the woman told police that Mangini said he was going to kill her and he later told his father that he would kill him as well.
Shortly after, when Mangini allowed the woman to go upstairs to the bathroom, she said she ran outside and hid in a neighbor's yard to call police.
Soon after the incident, while police were on scene, officers said Mangini's father told them in a phone call that he told Mangini to go to turn himself in. Mangini's father said Michael said he "had a gun, a baseball bat and a knife and that he was going to go down in a blaze of glory."
Mangini is also accused of telling a Middletown Sergeant that he would go to his house and kill his family. Police said Mangini also ranted about dying by suicide by cop.
Later on, Mangini was found in his vehicle traveling on the Arrigoni Bridge, officers said. Police conducted a motor vehicle stop and took him into custody without further incident.
He is facing charges including threatening, strangulation, unlawful restraint, and disorderly conduct.
Mangini is being held on $100,000 bond and was in court on Wednesday.
