Maine GOP Lawmaker Threatens To Shoot Photographer

[Cal]

WATERVILLE — A state representative from Garland was arrested this morning for allegedly pointing a handgun at a man at point-blank range in a Dunkin Donuts parking lot.

Republican Frederick Ladd Wintle, 58, faces charges of criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and carrying a concealed weapon for pulling a gun on Morning Sentinel photographer Michael Seamans of Sidney, police said.

In what police termed a “bizarre” series of events, Wintle allegedly started talking to Seamans about the infant that died this week at Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter on Ticonic Street and said he was looking for the mother’s drug dealer.

News reports made no mention of drugs involved in the infant's death and did not reveal the identity of the family.

He then pulled a .22-caliber handgun out of his pants’ waistband and pointed it at Seamans in the Dunkin Donuts parking lot, located on Kennedy Memorial Drive, according to police.

State rep charged with threatening to shoot 'innocent bystander' | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram

.. Talk about giving a whole new meaning to silencing the press.. .

 

[Zona]

If this is real....wow.

Want to guess what happens to him though? Nothing...If it turns out I am wrong, I will be surprised.

 

[uscitizen]

Must be a Tea Partier.

 

[Truthmatters]

Why is it so many think the barrel of a gun wins the argument?