Former Fairfield RTM Member Pleads Guilty In Threatening Police Officers Case: Feds

FAIRFIELD, CT — A former Fairfield Representative Town Meeting member has pleaded guilty to threatening Fairfield police officers, according to U.S. Attorney David X. Sullivan.

Raymond Neuberger, 41, who now resides in Easton, waived indictment and entered the plea last week before U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams in Hartford, court records show.

Prosecutors said Neuberger sent text messages on April 24 threatening to kill Fairfield police officers. Later that day, authorities said, he stopped his vehicle in the middle of Post Road in Fairfield, shouted profanities and made an obscene gesture at a police officer. He then drove to the Fairfield Police Department, where he again encountered the officer and repeated the behavior.

Afterward, Neuberger continued to make threats in phone calls to the Fairfield County Regional Dispatch Center and to Fairfield police, according to court documents. He also sent additional threatening text messages to another individual, including statements such as “I’m going to kill all the Fairfield cops,” “Tell Fairfield PD I’m close to snapping,” and “I’m armed.”

Neuberger pleaded guilty to transmitting interstate communications containing a threat to injure. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. A sentencing date has not been scheduled.

He was arrested on related state charges on April 29 and remains in federal custody. The state case is still pending, and Neuberger is scheduled to appear in Bridgeport Superior Court on Jan. 7.

Neuberger served time in prison in 2023 and 2024 in connection with an animal cruelty case, following a conviction for torturing cats.

The federal case was investigated by the FBI and the Fairfield Police Department and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Konstantin Lantsman.