Emma Wiley 19, Bit Off Female Cop's Ear Following Brawl Outside Massachusetts Bar

Meet Emma Wiley. The 19-year-old collegian allegedly bit off the ear of a female cop who was trying to get her into a police cruiser following a brawl early Sunday outside a Massachusetts bar. According to a Salem Police Department report, officers responding to a 911 call about a fight in progress found Wileytangling with another woman as a crowd of more than 100 people milled about. Wiley, cops noted, had a fist full of the other combatant’s hair and was trying to throw her foe to the ground. Pictured at right, Wiley was also “screaming uncontrollably.” After officers separated the pair and began escorting Wiley to a squad car, the teenager--who studies criminal justice at Salem State University--yelled, “I’ll fucking kill you all. Don’t fucking touch me!” As police struggled to get Wiley inside a cruiser, she lunged at the face of Officer Jessica Rondinelli, a rookie cop who has been on the job barely a month. Wiley, cops charge, “grabbed a hold of Officer Rondinelli’s right ear in her teeth and refused to let go.”  Rondinelli yelled, "She has my ear!" Wiley released her bite when Rondinelli, 27, gouged her in the eye. “She bit my ear off,” Rondinelli then told fellow officers. The cop’s right ear was bleeding and had a “jagged chunk missing from the top of it,” according to the report. As Rondinelli was rushed to a local hospital, Wiley threatened to have “every one of us cops killed,” an investigator noted. Officers subsequently found a piece of Rondinelli’s ear in the rear compartment of the car used to transport Wiley to the Salem police station. An officer “quickly put the piece in a plastic bag” and brought it to the hospital where Rondinelli was being treated. But Rondinelli was informed by a doctor that, “due to the risk of infection, the nature in which her ear had been disfigured it was unlikely that attaching bitten off piece was possible and her ear was going to be permanently marred.” Wiley, a Marblehead resident, was charged with an assortment of crimes, including mayhem, aggravated assault, assault and battery on a police officer, and making threats to kill. The teenager yesterday pleaded not guilty to the charges and was ordered held without bail by a District Court judge. In arguing for Wiley’s detention, a prosecutor stated that Rondinelli had been “forever maimed” by the defendant.