LEDYARD, Conn. — A Ledyard man was arrested and charged after trying to dig up his neighbor's yard and threatening them with a rock rake, said police.
On Saturday at around 10:14 a.m., Ledyard police received a call from a concerned woman regarding a neighbor digging in her yard with a rock rake and refusing to leave.
According to police, they learned when they arrived that Mark Uterstaedt, 61, walked to the person's home on Laurel Ave. because he believed he "owned the neighborhood" and that the caller and her family were pirates.
The caller’s husband confronted Uterstaedt about being on his property and digging up his yard. Uterstaedt began to yell and scream obscenities at the caller’s husband and young children and he then swung his rock rake in the direction of the caller’s husband, said police.
Uterstaedt told police that he was digging up the yard because he believed they were trying to install a waterline.
Uterstaedt was charged with two counts of risk of injury, threatening in the second degree, criminal mischief in the fourth degree, breach of peace, and simple trespass.
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