New Canaan Police on Monday night arrested two Betsy’s Lane residents following a domestic dispute.
At about 10:15 p.m. on Nov. 7, officers were dispatched to their house on a report of the dispute, according to a police report.
There, police conducted an investigation and charged each person involved—a 58-year-old man and 64-year-old woman—with disorderly conduct.
The woman also was charged with second-degree threatening, a misdemeanor offense.
It isn’t clear what prompted the argument, who phoned police, how the two residents are related or what triggered the charges—officials withheld further information, classifying the matter as a domestic incident.
Under Connecticut state law, second-degree threatening occurs when a person:
By physical threat, intentionally places or attempts to place another person in fear of imminent serious physical injury; or
threatens to commit any crime of violence with the intent to terrorize another, 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 or inconvenience.
Each arrested person was released after promising to appear Tuesday in state Superior Court in Norwalk.
Click here for domestic violence information and resources from the chief of the New Canaan Police Department.