Former Hartford officer arrested again, this time for disturbance at L + M
Groton — A former Hartford police officer, who had been arrested four times in area towns over the past week, was arrested again on Monday by New London police after they said he repeatedly yelled profanities and tried to start a fight in the Lawrence & Memorial Hospital emergency room and later urinated on the floor of the police station booking area.
Kenneth Elyosius, 62, of Bristol, was charged with second-degree breach of peace after the 1:30 p.m. incident in the emergency room where he was a patient. A booking photo shows Elyosius with cardiac monitoring pads affixed to his chest.
Police said that after receiving a report of a man causing a disturbance at the hospital, they found Elyosius yelling profanities and trying to start a fight with another patient. Police said he was given several opportunities “to correct his behavior” but continued to yell profanities. After he was placed under arrest, he continued to yell profanities and threatened police officers. When he arrived at the station, police said he continued to threaten officers and urinated in the booking room. He later appeared in New London Superior Court. The outcome of that appearance could not be determined Monday night.
Over this past weekend, he was charged by both Groton Town and Stonington police in boating related incidents. Stonington police said that about 7 p.m. on Saturday, they received a report that Elyosius was causing a disturbance on his boat near Mystic Seaport. When Groton Town Police apprehended him a short time later at Noank Shipyard and charged him with breach of peace, Stonington police responded and charged him with breach of peace and first-degree trespass in conjunction with the Mystic Seaport incident.
Last Tuesday, Elyosius was arrested in Mystic after police said he anchored his 30-foot boat in the channel of the Mystic River just south of the drawbridge, refused to move and shouted obscenities at other boaters.
A day later, he was charged in New London with first-degree trespass, breach of peace and refusal to submit to fingerprints, after police said he went to Hot Rod Cafe, where he had been previously warned to stay out, and told an employee that when he saw the business owner he was going to kill him.
Elyosius is the same man who docked his boat overnight alongside the swimming raft at Dubois Beach at Stonington Point early last month, prompting calls from concerned residents worried the boat would tear the raft loose, causing it to wash ashore. Stonington Police told The Day last week that they had dealt with Elyosius on several recent occasions and issued him trespassing warnings as he became an “unwanted guest” at marinas and establishments along Mystic River and Stonington Harbor.
Elyosius has multiple convictions in Connecticut for impersonating a police officer, drunken driving, violation of probation and other charges. In 2003 he was convicted of assaulting a Bristol police officer, and in 1997 he was charged with assaulting two Manchester police officers. The results of that case could not be determined. In past cases, his attorneys were quoted in media reports as saying Elyosius had problems with alcohol abuse. According to media reports in Florida, in 2013 he was arrested in Key Largo, Fla. for beating a homeless man with a pipe and boating under the influence along with numerous other charges.
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