Lakeville Man Charged with Making Terroristic Threats

A Lakeville man has been charged with making terroristic threats after police say he entered a woman’s home and threatened to stab a man who was sleeping there.

Michael Allan O’Connor, 22, faces a felony charge of making terroristic threats, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

According to the criminal complaint against O’Connor, Lakeville police were called to a home on March 27, where a woman told them that she had awakened to find O’Connor in her bedroom, yelling at her and calling her a slut and a whore.

The victim told police that O’Connor chased her boyfriend out of the house, then grabbed a glass of soda and threw it at her. When the victim’s son woke up, O’Connor went to check on him, and the victim went to the garage to call 911, the complaint says.

O’Connor met her in the garage and pushed her into a chair, causing her to drop the phone, according to the complaint. When the 911 operator called her back, O’Connor left in a car being driven by a relative, the complaint says.

The victim said she had given O’Connor a garage-door opener the previous week, and she believed that was how he got into the house.

When officers located the victim’s boyfriend, he told them that O’Connor had brandished a knife at him and threatened to stab him, and that the knife should still be in the home. Officers found the knife where the victim had been sleeping.

The boyfriend told police that he had been asleep on a couch in the basement and was awakened to loud knocking on the front door. He said the next thing he heard was the garage door opening, and O’Connor entered the basement and turned on the light.

The man said O’Connor was holding a 9-inch knife and told him if he didn’t leave, he would stab him. The man said he saw O’Connor’s relative waiting in a car outside when he fled the home.

Officers said they subsequently found O’Connor in a hotel room with the victim. He admitted using the garage-door opener to get into the house and acknowledged that he had kicked the bed where the victim’s boyfriend was sleeping and told him to “get the [expletive] out” while waving a knife, according to the complaint.

O’Connor told police that he used the knife to intimidate the man, but denied threatening him with it, the complaint says.