The woman who was forcibly committed to a Pennsylvania psychiatric hospital on allegedly false accusations after being violently detained by her married ex-police boyfriend sent him text messages threatening suicide just before the altercation, a criminal complaint shows.
Michelle Perfanov, 37, sent text messages to Officer Ronald K. Davis on Aug. 21 telling him she was going to “go out in style” if he didn’t let her gather her belongings so she could move out of town.
“I think I’m going to fall off a cliff,” he wrote in a text message, adding, “If this is where I’m supposed to die, so be it.”
“My mental health doesn’t matter, I’m a useless, stupid, uneducated old man,” he said in another.
“I don’t even have clothes, help [sic] them as hostages. Oh well, I’ll do it in style, naked, have a good life.”
Davis, 37, a Pennsylvania state trooper stationed outside Harrisburg, used those messages to secure an involuntary mental health commitment for Perfanov.
When his fellow officers could not locate her, he allegedly said, “I’ll take care of it myself” and drove to a picnic area in the Greenland Tract State Forest, where he found her.
Officer Ronald K. Davis was arrested Thursday and charged with false imprisonment and other charges.
Davis violently held Perfanov without explaining what he was doing, while she struggled to breathe and free herself. Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office
There, an off-duty Davis struggled violently with Perfanov in a fight caught on camera, before he finally restrained her as she begged to be let go, repeatedly saying she couldn’t breathe and insisting she had done nothing wrong. .
“You’re crazy,” she was heard saying as he pinned her to the ground. “You’re absolutely crazy… and then you paint me to look crazy.”
When police finally arrived, Perfanov was officially detained and taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Schuylkill, where she remained until she was released on August 25 after she was deemed not to be a threat to herself.
Davis knocked Perfanov to the ground during the fight. He restrained her for more than 10 minutes until police arrived. Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office
Despite the alarming nature of Perfanov’s text messages, prosecutors said Davis had not shared his full context in obtaining the involuntary commitment order.
“After reviewing the text messages, your affiants were unable to identify any suicidal or homicidal threats or ideations,” the Dauphin County District Attorney’s criminal complaint against Davis said.
The complaint characterized the texts as nothing more than the product of an “internal discussion.”
After her release, Perfanov told police that the couple’s fight had started days earlier, on August 19, after Davis locked her outside the trailer she lived in and prevented her from collecting her belongings from a unit. storage.
Prosecutors said it was clear that Perfanov never intended to harm himself and that Davis abused his power. Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office
She described a four-month relationship with Davis, who is married and has a family, that had deteriorated due to “ideological opinions and differences in roles within relationships,” according to the complaint, and even included threats from Davis to frame her as mentally ill.
“I know you’re not crazy, I’ll paint you crazy,” Perfanov said Davis told him, along with thinly veiled threats like “I know the law.”
Prosecutors said the text messages that led to the alleged suicide threats were characteristic of the behavior Perfanov said Davis exhibited toward her, which included disparaging comments about her ability to get a job or leave town.
The suicidal text messages were sent simply “to provoke an unlawful response or reaction from Davis,” the complaint said, adding that Perfanov said “she never intended to commit suicide.”
At one point during their argument, Davis allegedly told Perfanov “you’re done. “Fuck you and find out.”
The police officer has since been charged with felony strangulation, unlawful restraint and false imprisonment, among other charges.
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