Man Charged After Threatening To 'Shoot Up' Pub In Milford, Police

MILFORD, MA — An Idahoan man is facing charges after police said he threatened to "shoot up" a pub in Milford.

A man, later identified as 21-year-old Matthew Skelikh, called 911 and asked for police to come after a dispute with an employee at TD's Pub on Thursday at around 9:40 p.m. He said that he would "shoot up" the establishment.

Police said officers were looking for a white man wearing blue jeans, a black jacket, and a black cowboy hat.

Officers found a suspect matching the description, fleeing toward Main Street, and hiding behind a vehicle on Thayer Street.

At around 9:56 p.m., officers arrested Skelikh, who is from Blackfoot, Idaho, and charged him with disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, threat to commit a crime, resisting arrest, bomb/hijack threat, and false report to a public safety dispatch.

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