State cop charged with threatening call

BRIDGEPORT -- A State Police officer, awaiting sentencing for assaulting his former girlfriend, was arrested again after police said he called her from a Fairfield diner and threatened her.

Laszlo Urszenyi, 45, was charged Friday with violating a protective order.

Urszenyi, who is on paid administrative duty, was released after posting a $75,000 bond and agreeing to wear a GPS monitoring device.

Both he and his lawyer, Guy Soares, declined to comment as they left the Golden Hill Street courthouse.

Police said Urszenyi had been ordered to have no contact with his former girlfriend following his arrested last Dec. 13 on charges of third-degree assault and unlawful restraint.

Police said that on June 28 Urszenyi went to the Athena Diner and asked to use their telephone. Police said he then called his ex-girlfriend's cellphone and threatened her and then hung up.

But police said they were able to trace the call back to the diner where a surveillance video showed Urszenyi on the diner's telephone at the time of the threatening call.

In the December incident, police said they responded to Urszenyi's Bridgeport home after the police dispatch received a 911 hang up. When officers got there they found Urszenyi's 35-year-old girlfriend visibly upset with red marks on her neck.

The report states that the girlfriend told officers that Urszenyi had forgotten it was her Name Day so she had texted him that she no longer wanted to be in a relationship with him and was moving out of their apartment.

Urszenyi arrived home about an hour later and the two got into an argument. During the argument officers said the girlfriend claimed Urszenyi pushed her into the bedroom by her neck, closed the door and refused to let her out until she begged to use the bathroom.

The girlfriend continued that she managed to get to the bathroom and lock the door but Urszenyi broke it open, the report states. The girlfriend then ran to her car where she called police.

Police said the bathroom door was splintered around the lock.

The report states that Urszenyi admitted pushing his girlfriend and breaking down the bathroom door. He said he was packing up to leave when police arrived.

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