Newlyweds jailed after brawl at hotel
PITTSBURGH (AP) - April 29, 2008 The fight started Saturday night after a reception when he
knocked her to the floor with a karate kick in the seventh-floor
hallway of a Holiday Inn, according to police. It escalated when
she attacked two guests from another wedding party who came to her
aid, police said.
The melee moved to an elevator and then to the lobby, where the
couple threw metal planters at the two guests of the other party,
causing minor injuries, police charged.
"It was pretty wild," Ross police Sgt. Dave Syska said.
Dentist David W. Wielechowski, 32, of Shaler, and Christa
Vattimo, 25, had married a month earlier in the Bahamas but
repeated their vows Saturday at a reception for 150 guests. They
were checking into their room when the argument began, police said.
Police arrived to find the dentist lying on the lobby floor and
his bride screaming, they said.
Authorities charged them both with simple assault, criminal
mischief and disorderly conduct, and the bride with an additional
count of public intoxication. They face a May 7 preliminary
hearing.
A district judge considered issuing a restraining order against
Wielechowski, but his new bride declined the measure.
The couple declined comment upon their release Sunday morning.
She left with her father, still dressed in her white gown.
Wielechowski left alone, sporting a swollen eye, tuxedo pants, a
bloody T-shirt and one shoe.