Report: Man urinated on restaurant as diners looked on

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MIDDLETOWN >> A convicted felon with 96 arrests to his name caused a disturbance in front of three businesses on Main Street last week, including relieving himself on a restaurant’s storefront in full view of diners, police say.

On Jan. 17 at 5 p.m., police were called to Los Primos market on Main Street about an unwanted person who was standing on the sidewalk out front, yelling and swearing and when officers arrived they demanded he leave, according to the report.

Later that night at 6 p.m., an individual approached patrol officers about the same man who was reportedly lying on the ground in front of Rosario’s Tailoring on Main Street. When police came to the business, they discovered Joseph J. Duncan, 59, of Labella Circle sitting up against the building and when asked what he was doing he failed to repond, the report says.

When told he couldn’t do sit on private property, he got up to leave, a statement attests, walked away and then turned around, pointed his hand toward the patrol officers in a gun shape and yelled, “Bang! Bang!”

Again at 6:12 p.m., the same policemen were summoned to I.O.N. Restaurant on Main on the report Duncan was urinating on the building, an affadavit says, pull up his pants and stagger off while customers were dining at the large front window, .

Back at headquarters, police say, he was placed in an emotionally disturbed persons’ cell to sober up and refused fingerprinting. The report indicates Duncan has been arrested 96 times and is a convicted felon for numerous failures to appear.

He was charged with failure to comply with fingerprinting and breach of peace, held on a $5,000 bond and was due to appear in Middletown Superior Court on Jan. 20.