Police: PC Man Threatened Girlfriend With Butcher's Cleaver

A Port Chester man was arrested Friday for threatening his ex-girlfriend with a cleaver less than an hour after officers had warned the man to stay away, according to police.

Officers responded to the victim's Traverse Avenue home before 1 a.m. The victim, a 26-year-old woman, told police that her boyfriend, Jose Pozuelos, was drunk when he showed up at her home.

"She didn't want him locked up, she just wanted him to leave," Lt. James Ladeairous said.

Officers escorted Pozuelos out of the home, but at 1:30 a.m. the victim heard a knocking sound on a rear window and realized Pozuelos was back. He pleaded with the victim to let him inside so he could retrieve some of his clothes which were in her home.

But when he got inside, another argument began. Pozuelos allegedly grabbed the victim and threw her onto her bed. She escaped and ran into the living room, locking the door behind her.

That's when Pozuelos kicked down the door and walked into the living room wielding a butcher's cleaver he had picked up from the kitchen, according to police.

Pozuelos threw the victim on the couch and raised the cleaver, Ladeairous said. A female friend of the victim was also in the home at the time, and when she began to dial police, Pozuelos dropped the cleaver and ran out of the home.

A few minutes later, an officer spotted Pozuelos on North Main Street and took him into custody. Pozuelos, of Traverse Avenue, was charged with second-degree menacing, fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, fourth-degree criminal mischief and resisting arrest, all misdemeanors.

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