Police on Thursday evening arrested a 79-year-old New Canaan man and charged him with first-degree threatening.
At about 6 p.m. on Jan. 31, police took a complaint from a victim regarding a threatening incident, according to a police report. Following an investigation, police obtained an arrest warrant.
It isn’t clear whether or how the arrested man is related to the victim or what the threat involved.
Under state law, a person is guilty of threatening in the first degree when such person threatens to commit any crime involving the use of a hazardous substance with the intent to terrorize another person, to cause evacuation of a building, place of assembly or facility of public transportation or otherwise to cause serious public inconvenience, or threatens to commit such crime in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such terror, evacuation or inconvenience.
Police served the warrant at the man’s Ponus Ridge home at about 4:15 p.m. on Feb. 15. He was released on $5,000 bond and scheduled to appear Friday, Feb. 16 in state Superior Court in Norwalk.