Crime & Safety

Connecticut Firefighter Charged With Threatening

The off-duty firefighter allegedly drunkenly entered a woman's apartment and refused to leave.

A Connecticut firefighter is charged with breach of peace and second-degree threatening after he allegedly drunkenly entered a stranger’s apartment and refused to leave, WFSB 3 reports. 

Police say Lamont Freeman, a Hartford firefighter, entered a woman’s apartment on Barbour Street Tuesday afternoon. 

The woman told Freeman he was in the wrong apartment and she could only get him to leave after physically pushing him out of her apartment, WFSB reports. 

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But Freeman continued to pound on the door until police arrived. He was taken into custody and police say he was heavily intoxicated. 

Read the full WFSB story here. 

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