Crime & Safety
Man Used Racial Slurs, Threatened To Shoot People: Naugatuck PD
A man is accused of using racial slurs and threatening to shoot people during an incident in Naugatuck, according to police.
NAUGATUCK, CT β A Waterbury man is accused of using racial slurs and threatening to shoot people during an incident earlier this year in Naugatuck, according to police.
Mark Allan Daubert, 41, was arrested Sunday in connection with an incident that occurred in February. Police responded to the area of 66 Church St. at about 1:45 a.m. on Feb. 24 for a threatening complaint. The victims told police that they were threatened to be shot and called multiple racial slurs.
The suspect left the scene before police arrived. An officer later saw the suspect and tried to initiate a traffic stop, but the suspect left and tried to engage officers in pursuit, according to police.
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Police identified the suspect as Daubert and went to his home in Waterbury.
βWhile at the residence, the accused used more racial slurs and lied about his whereabouts,β police wrote in a news release. βWhich the officers found through investigation was not truthful.β
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Daubert was arrested on charges of third-degree intimidate due to bias, first-degree threatening, second-degree breach of peace, traveling unreasonably fast, traffic control signals, engaging police in pursuit and operating motorcycle without endorsement. He was being held in lieu of a $50,000 bond with a court date of Aug. 19, according to state judicial records.
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