ROCKLAND, Maine — A Rockport man who had to be hauled out of court Monday afternoon after threatening to kill the assistant district attorney was charged with an additional assault count when police said he spat on a jail guard.
Tyrone Trask, 55, of Rockport, was charged later Monday afternoon with felony assault on an officer and three counts of criminal threatening.
Knox County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Tim Carroll said Tuesday that Trask had been combative and guards decided to place him in a restraint chair at the Knox County Jail. Trask then spat in a corrections officer’s face, Carroll said.
Trask was disruptive during his Monday hearing in Knox County Unified Court, where he was making his initial appearance for aggravated assault and violating a condition of release. Trask admitted he punched the victim and kicked him once but said he had been defending a woman and that the victim had slapped him first.
The affidavit filed by Rockport police, however, quoted witnesses as saying that although the victim had slapped Trask in the Friday incident in Rockport, the defendant then punched the man, who fell to the ground, and then Trask repeatedly kicked him with steel-toed boots in both the head and ribs while he was down.
Trask had been in court last week on charges of unlawful sexual contact, assault and disorderly conduct. In that case, police said that Trask had grabbed and touched another man and then assaulted another person.
He had been released on unsecured bail for those offenses. On Monday, however, Judge Susan Sparaco ordered him held without bail on a request from the district attorney’s office because Trask allegedly violated bail by committing the new offenses.
Trask told the judge that the jail was not giving him his proper amount of medication and that he had not been able to see his caseworker.
Trask repeatedly swore at Assistant District Attorney Christopher Fernald and said the prosecutor was biased against him. After the judge ordered Trask held without bail, he screamed that he would kill the prosecutor.