Connecticut Police Department Refuses Watermelon By Man Accused of Threatening

Carmine Cervellino, who made national headlines this week after being arrested for stabbing a watermelon with a butcher knife in a ‘passive aggressive manner,’ brought a watermelon to the Thomaston Police Department on Friday. 

However, a police officer told Cervellino, 49, of Thomaston, who was present with his two teenage sons, that they don’t accept gifts and they they didn’t appreciate his “photo stunt,” the Torrington Register Citizen reports. 

Cervellino was charged with second-degree threatening and disorderly conduct earlier this month for stabbing the piece of fruit. The alleged victim claims Cervellino stabbed the watermelon in an effort to intimidate her and because he was angry with her, the Register Citizen reports. 

Police Chief James Campbell has defended his department saying they had to rely on the statement of the alleged victim and how she felt about the watermelon incident, the Register Citizen reports. Police did not interview Cervellino before they arrested him. 

Read the full Register Citizen story here.