Rye Woman Faces Felony Charge after Port Chester Party Assault

A 43-year-old Rye woman faces a felony assault charge after she herself called police, drunk, leading them to a Port Chester house party where she’d clubbed a man in the head with a beer bottle, then punched him and bit his hand, officials say.

Celia Leon, of 238 Purchase St., was charged with second-degree assault, a Class D felony.

At 10:24 on Nov. 16, Port Chester police received a call from Leon saying she needed help and that she was in Rye and was being harrassed by men at a party, according to Lt. James Ladeairous.

Leon didn’t know where she was, leaving police stumped, but she dialed 911 again later and it turned out she was at a party on William Street, police said. Officers found Leon there and she told them she had returned to the party to retrieve a stolen purse, according to police. However, her purse was in her own car, police said. That’s when police heard from others present at the party, including the victim—a 47-year-old Queens man—that the woman had assaulted him.