State rep threatens to shoot "innocent bystander"

[Old and In the Way]

WATERVILLE — A state representative from Garland was arrested Saturday morning for pointing a handgun at a man at point-blank range in a Dunkin Donuts parking lot.

Republican Frederick Ladd Wintle, 58, faces charges of criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and carrying a concealed weapon for pulling a gun on Morning Sentinel photographer Michael Seamans, of Sidney.

In what police termed a “bizarre” series of events, Wintle allegedly started talking to Seamans about the infant that died this week at Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter on Ticonic Street and said he was looking for the mother’s drug dealer.

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http://www.pressherald.com/news/State-rep-threatens-to-shoot-innocent-bystander.html

You'll never guess which party he is from - (OK, he's a Republican-ME)....I know this guy, but never suspected he'd do something like this. Sounds like some kind of nervous breakdown if you ask me. I wondering what connection Fred has to the mother of the infant - I don't think it's a direct family connection, but maybe I'm wrong. Developing, as they say...