CHESTERVILLE – Katherine Matthews is wondering how things turned out the way they did – with her 70-year-old husband Tasered to the ground and arrested on a charge of terrorizing.

Somehow, something went wrong, and she doesn’t know where, she said.

Her husband, Norman Parent, had been in bed Friday when she went in to discuss a personal matter about a family member who lives out of state, she said Tuesday.

He was upset and angry about that person owing him money, she said, and he made a comment to her displaying his anger about the situation, but not against her.

“He didn’t terrorize anyone,” she said. “There was no direct threat to a family member. On behalf of my husband, I want to say my husband was angry and upset over a personal situation that had nothing to do with me.”

Parent, a retired school principal from Massachusetts, had taken out his hearing aids before he went to bed, and she went for a ride after their conversation while her husband went to sleep.

She called a friend from her cell phone.

“I was concerned over my husband, that he was so upset and he was stressed,” she said.

She had hoped the friend would come to the house to talk to her husband, she said.

The friend decided not to come, but instead called the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department, she said.

A deputy called the house and left a message on the couple’s answering machine for her husband before the deputy and a state trooper went to the house at Stinchfield Hill Road where Parent was sleeping, she said.

Matthews said her husband, who has had quadruple bypass surgery, was awoken by police.

Parent ended up arrested, but not before the deputy used an electric Taser to subdue him after he allegedly resisted arrest and ended up in a scuffle with the state trooper.

Parent was charged with terrorizing and refusing to submit to arrest. He was released on $2,000 cash bail.

“My husband is the victim here,” she said.

Franklin County Sheriff’s Cpl. Steve Charles and Chief Deputy Ray Meldrum stood by the arrest on Tuesday. They said it was a case of domestic terrorism.

Charles’ report stated that Parent was “agitated, confrontational and very aggressive and told them he wasn’t going anywhere with them.”

He added that Parent answered the door when police went to the home, contradicting what Matthews said about Parent being asleep at the time.

As the officers attempted to restrain Parent, he got into a scuffle with Maine State Trooper Randall Keaten and Charles “tased” him to subdue him and take him into custody, Meldrum said.