Police: PC Man Called Girlfriend 17 Times Despite Order of Protection

A Port Chester man faces a criminal contempt charge for calling his girlfriend 17 times from county jail despite an order of protection, Port Chester police said.

Sonial Torres, 29, remains in Westchester County Jail on three original charges, including felony criminal mischief, as well as misdemeanor assault and endangering the welfare of a child.

Torres was arrested on April 18 for attacking his 31-year-old girlfriend at their Wesley Avenue home.

In the original incident, police responded to the couple's home and met the victim as she was coming down the stairs -- her nose was bleeding and her shirt was bloody from the assault, Lt. James Ladeairous said.

Torres was carrying a baby seat to his car, and the panicked girlfriend told officers Torres was going to take the couple's baby away. Police arrested Torres, and an order of protection was filed, prohibiting him from contacting his girlfriend.

But according to phone records and an assistant district attorney, Torres called his girlfriend 17 times from Westchester County Jail's phones over a two day stretch, on April 19 and 20.

Torres is scheduled to return to Port Chester village court on May 5, when he will be charged with second-degree criminal contempt, a misdemeanor, for violating the order of protection. Police say they filed the second charge, endangering the welfare of a child, after the victim told them she was holding the baby while Torres struck her.

In addition, with felony criminal mischief in the second degree after destroying a computer, a monitor and an iPad in the couple's home with a decorative axe.

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