Cape Cod Contractor Charged After Argument Ends With Gun Pulled

YARMOUTH, MA — An argument over work quality involving two separate contractors led to a pepper ball gun being pulled and charges for one person.

Yarmouth Police were called to a West Yarmouth address late Wednesday morning after contractors, working on the same home, had a dispute ending with one of them being threatened with a gun.

The contractors were hired for separate jobs at the home when one had an issue with the quality of the other’s work, police said.

During an argument, Christopher Soares, 47, of Mashpee, pulled a gun from his waistband and pointed it at the other contractor, police said.

Yarmouth Police stopped Soares as he was leaving the home and located a gun inside the truck he was driving. Upon further inspection, the gun was identified as a pepper ball gun, designed to shoot paintball-style projectiles filled with hot pepper oil.

Soares was arrested and charged with threat to commit a crime and assault with a dangerous weapon and is scheduled to be arraigned in Barnstable District Court on Thursday.