CHESTERVILLE – A 15-year-old Chesterville boy is being detained after allegedly threatening a family member with a rifle.
Deputy Heidi Gould of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department responded to a complaint of criminal threatening at a home in Chesterville just before midnight Thursday.
Allegedly, the teen living there pointed a .22 rifle at a family member, who thought it was loaded because the boy slid a clip into it, said Detective David St. Laurent of the Sheriff’s Department.
Later, it turned out that the rifle was not loaded, St. Laurent said, but because the family member had felt threatened, the teen was arrested and charged with felony Class C criminal threatening with a firearm.
Based on the youth’s past criminal record, he could be incarcerated up until he is 21 years old at most, St. Laurent said.
He was arrested by Gould and is being held at the Mountain View Youth Development Center in Charleston. On Monday, he was arraigned in Farmington, however was ordered by the judge to stay at the youth center.
Assisting Gould in her investigation was State Trooper Derrick Record.
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