Man Threatened Victims With Gun In Enfield Apartment: Police

ENFIELD, CT — An incident involving a semi-automatic handgun at a Thompsonville apartment early Tuesday morning resulted in a litany of charges against a Massachusetts man and a $900,000 bond, according to police.

Around 1:15 a.m., police were called to 38 Thompson Court with multiple reports that an armed man had broken into an apartment there. An investigation determined Brandon Blanks, 36, of Springfield, had entered the apartment with the consent of a resident, with the intention of taking property belonging to another apartment resident, police said.

During the course of retrieving the property, Blanks pointed a pistol at one person and brandished it in a menacing manner at a second. The victims and witnesses told police Blanks was in possession of a semi-automatic handgun with an extended magazine and had pointed it at the victim, police said.

One minor injury was sustained by a victim, police said.

Subsequent searches of the home, an involved vehicle and an exterior building yielded two loaded 9mm semi-automatic pistols, which were seized. One was loaded with a 30-round extended magazine containing 24 rounds of ammunition. Also recovered were 400 bags of suspected heroin/fentanyl, 72 grams of crack cocaine, eight opiate pills and several hundred dollars in cash, police said.

Blanks was charged with sale of a narcotic substance, criminal use of a weapon, second-degree breach of peace, criminal possession of a firearm, first-degree reckless endangerment, first-degree unlawful restraint, possession of a weapon in a motor vehicle, second-degree assault, first-degree threatening, carrying a pistol without a permit, possession of a controlled substance, illegal sale of prescription drugs and illegal possession of a large capacity magazine.

Latisha Krassler, 35, of Springfield, was also arrested and charged with possession of a weapon in a motor vehicle. She was released on a $2,000 bond, and is slated to appear in court Jan. 11, 2022.

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