Maloney was going less than 10 miles per hour, wearing his skull mask. The three bikers came down Temple Street and turned right on Crown at around 10:45 p.m. Maloney said at 47 his club-going days are behind him, but he agreed to ride down with them, after which he planned to head home. Afterward, a couple of Presidents who are around 25 years old said they wanted to head downtown to Crown Street to check out the clubs. He’d gone with some Presidents to a football game at Southern Connecticut State University.
Here’s what he said happened last Thursday night:
He has four kids, one of whom, his teenage daughter, he’s raised as a single parent. In his spare time, he helps coach a West Haven peewee football team, the Seahawks. Maloney said he has no arrest record and hasn’t even had a speeding ticket in Connecticut. When he’s riding, he usually dons a wind mask with a skull on it, or his custom-painted helmet that looks like a dragon head. He rides a souped-up Kawasaki Ninja ZX-12R with an extra-wide rear wheel and a custom dragon-themed paint job. Maloney is the vice-president and co-founder of the Presidents, an area motorcycle club that boasts 50 members. He vowed to “diminish” their “presence.” Wrong Place, Wrong Timeīefore that afternoon announcement, Maloney spoke in his West Haven home about his experience of Operation Nightlife. The problems they create vastly outweigh the benefits they bring to the city, he said. In his most forceful language on the subject to date, Mayor John DeStefano said the clubs on Crown Street are no longer of use to New Haven. 19 shootout involving clubgoers and cops. The crackdown comes in response to a Sept. They made more than two dozen arrested on minor violations during the first weekend of the crackdown and issued 84 tickets, like one Maloney ended up receiving the operation cost taxpayers $15,000. Meanwhile, city officials gathered in the club district Tuesday afternoon to tout the success of Operation Nightlife and to announce it will go on for at least another weekend. The incident has left him wanting to avoid downtown altogether, he said in an interview Tuesday afternoon. He said he was simply parking his bike with a couple other members of his motorcycle club, the Presidents. Maloney, a 47-year-old Amtrak engineer, said a member of the beefed-up police contingent pulled him off his motorcycle, cursed at him, threatened him, ripped off his skull face mask, broke his glasses, and handcuffed him without explanation. Maloney (pictured on his bike) got caught up in the first night of Operation Nightlife, the stepped-up police enforcement that last week flooded Crown Street with cops on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. As the mayor announced that “Operation Nightlife” will continue to bring aggressive law and order to the club district, Mark “Big Tone” Maloney decided he will no longer take his skull mask and dragon bike to Crown Street-lest cops assault him again.
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