Man, 49, Threatened To Beat Up 10-Year-Old Boy: Middletown Police

MIDDLETOWN, CT — A Middletown man is accused of berating an 89-year-old woman over a pile of brush and debris while threatening and hurling racial slurs at her 10-year-old grandson who was trying to protect her, according to police. Middletown Police responded to an East Main Street address at about 2:50 p.m. on June 25 on the report of a threatening incident.

The resident told police that she was in her front yard with her 10-year-old grandson when a man named Dennis was walking down the other side of the road as he usually does because he lives nearby on Andrew Street, according to the police report. She said the man then came across the street and began yelling at her for a pile of brush and other debris that was waiting to be picked up by the city.

The woman attempted to explain that to him, but he began screaming at her and called her an “old slut” and a “lesbian,” according to the police report. She told the man that she thought he was drunk or high.

The 10-year-old boy then attempted to intervene to protect his 89-year-old grandmother and told Dennis he was being disrespectful. The man then called the boy a racial slur along with “four eyes” and a “baby bitch,” police wrote in the report.

The man then allegedly told the boy he was going to beat him up. The victims were afraid the man would actually do it and went inside to call police, according to the report.

A witness recorded the majority of the incident and police identified the man in the video as Dennis Kaper, 49, based on numerous past dealings, according to the report. The video showed Kaper going back and forth across the street and screaming profanity at the woman and her grandson, according to police.

Police went to Kaper’s address and he allegedly admitted that he had screamed at the woman and the boy, according to the report. Kaper initially denied threatening the boy, but “when told it was on video, admitted to it,” police wrote in the report.

Kaper was arrested on charges of second-degree breach of peace and threatening. He was held on a $10,000 bond and issued a court date of July 2.

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