FARMINGTON – A Chesterville man pleaded guilty Thursday to domestic terrorizing and was released on bail with an agreement that if he completes anger-management counseling in the next 12 months he can withdraw his plea.

The state dismissed a charge of refusing to submit to arrest against Norman Parent, 70, in the agreement approved by Judge John McElwee in 12th District Court.

When McElwee asked Parent how he pleaded to the terrorizing charge, Parent said, “Guilty, I guess.” Then he said guilty.

Police charged Parent at his Stinchfield Hill Road home Aug. 17 after someone called the Sheriff’s Department reporting Parent had threatened to kill his wife’s son and if she sided with him, he would kill her, too.

Assistant District Attorney Andrew Robinson said Parent’s wife, Katherine Matthews, said early in the case that she was reluctant to pursue the charges.

Matthews had previously denied in court that her husband had terrorized her, saying he was angry about approximately $6,000 that her son owed him. She had called a friend, she said, hoping that he would go to the house and talk to her husband. Instead, the friend called police. She also had said previously that she was upset that police used a Taser on her husband because he has a history of heart problems and wears hearing aids. Tasers help police subdue a person by sending an electrical shock through the body, incapacitating the individual.

When police went to Parent’s home after talking to Matthews and the friend, police said he became “agitated, confrontational and very aggressive, and told them he wasn’t going anywhere with them,” according to a deputy’s report.

A Chesterville couple who put up $2,000 bail for Parent were given their money back.

Parent is scheduled to appear in court again Dec. 4, 2008.

Matthews said after the court appearance Thursday that neither she nor her husband would comment on the case.