
Mahoney said he assigned a lieutenant to investigate and that he would review the findings and render a judgment. Police Chief Brett Mahoney said in a phone interview Thursday that he sent McCarthy a certified letter Thursday confirming the department received the complaint. "I now not only feel threatened by my neighbors, but also by a police officer who was supposed to protect me," McCarthy wrote in the complaint. Marc Balestracci, writing that she felt threatened and harassed by the sergeant when he came into her yard and told her he would have her arrested if she walked her dogs in the neighborhood again. 1, McCarthy filed a civilian complaint against police Sgt. Police said in a report that they discussed with McCarthy "alternative routes for walking the dogs in an effort to calm tensions in the neighborhood" and talked with Jennifer Dyment about changing some of her habits, such as when she goes outside to smoke, to avoid a direct confrontation with McCarthy. McCarthy denies the allegation adamantly and said she works long hours and hardly knows anyone in the neighborhood. She said McCarthy has been walking along the street taking pictures of houses and cars and looking into windows.

Jennifer Dyment claims McCarthy is friends with others in the neighborhood who have problems with people on Hamast Avenue. According to an incident report, Jennifer Dyment, 35, mother of Greene and wife of Dyment, called to say the alleged victim of the stun gun incident, 24-year-old Morganne McCarthy of 45 Boston Post Road, had returned with her dogs and was yelling threats at them. The police returned to the small neighborhood near the former Poor Richard's restaurant on Boston Post Road the following night, Aug. They both are due Monday in New London Superior Court.

was charged with interfering with an officer.

was charged with breach of peace, threatening and carrying a dangerous weapon. Waterford - Police said they seized a heavy-duty stun gun from the attic of a Hamast Avenue home last week and arrested two people after a neighborhood woman complained a man chased her with a Taser while she walked two dogs on the street on Aug.
