Police arrested a 73-year-old shotgun-toting landlord after she threatened a tenant Monday evening, a police report said.
When Parker Police Department arrived about 6 p.m., Barbara Jean Emery, 73, was still holding the 44-year-old tenant Chadwick Peck at gunpoint in her 227 North Lakewood Drive home. After the officers got Emery to step away from the gun, they found she’d turned the safety off and loaded four shells in the Remington 12-guage pump shotgun, with one in the chamber, police reported.
Peck told police when he came home moments earlier, someone had thrown his possessions out of the room he was renting and into the yard. When he walked through an unhinged door connecting the rest of the house, Emery was seated next to a desk in the hallway brandishing the shotgun. Emery told him not to move or she would shoot, the shotgun laying on its side facing him, he said.
Sometime in the standoff Peck was able to call 911.
Emery told police her tenants only pay her for sole use of the room. She admitted to unhinging the door but denied tossing his property into the yard.
Police arrested Emery on aggravated assault by threat with a firearm and false imprisonment.
Source: newsherald
