DECEMBER 14--The Connecticut landscaper facing a voyeurism charge for secretly recording a sexual encounter with a female friend--a tryst that included the application of maple syrup and blueberry 
jelly--was jailed this week for violating a protective order barring him from contacting the victim.
Robert Somley, 52, is being held in the Bridgeport jail on $150,000 bond after he allegedly sought to intimidate the 48-year-old victim. In addition to a witness tampering charge, Somley was hit with a second felony count for violating a protective order.
Somley, seen at right, was arrested last month in connection with his consensual November 24 romp with a married woman. The incident, detailed in a leading contender for 2018 Police Report of the Year[1], occurred at a residence in Monroe, a town about 15 miles west of New Haven.
According to investigators, the woman was helping Somley load wood into a trailer outside his residence. The woman told cops that she dated Somley 20 years ago and had recently reconnected with him and was helping him through “this rough time.” Somley, she said, lost his home to foreclosure and was forced to move into a Monroe apartment.
When 15 minutes passed and Somley did not join her loading the trailer, the woman returned to the apartment. There she found Somley “completely naked”[2] and “watching porn on the laptop.” Somley, the woman told cops, explained that he "had to ‘jerk off’ before he started to work.”
Somley, cops noted, “then told her to go outside” and “give him a few minutes.”
After 20 minutes went by and Somley had not appeared outside, the woman again entered the apartment. This time, Somley was “near the entrance naked with