An Old Forge man who threatened another man with a baseball bat is charged with making terroristic threats and criminal mischief, according to a criminal complaint.
Darren Damian Brojakowski, 23, 432 S. Main St., repeatedly swung a bat at another man’s door and threatened to damage his car, police said.
According to the criminal complaint:
Just after midnight Thursday, Old Forge police responded to a residence on South Main Street for the report of a man threatening another man with a baseball bat from outside his front door.
Officers spoke with Jimmy Gonzalez, who said Brojakowski came to his door and ordered him to send out his stepson.
Gonzalez said the man, later identified as Brojakowski, repeatedly struck his front door causing damage.
Brojakowski then walked to the end of the steps near a parking lot and inquired as to what vehicle was his, threatening to strike it if Gonzalez didn’t have his stepson come outside.
Officers then spoke with the stepson, who said he was walking outside while on his cellphone near Arcaro and Genell restaurant when he saw two women walking nearby.
He told police he walked in their direction, but didn’t say anything to them and didn’t run toward them.
As he was walking home, two men began chasing him.
Once at his residence, one of the men started banging on the door, damaging it and threatening his stepfather if he didn’t have his stepson come outside.
Officers searched the area and found Brojakowski in a restaurant parking lot and took him into custody.
Brojakowski told officers he had been at home when a woman came to the door and said a man had been chasing her and another woman down the street.
Brojakowski grabbed a baseball bat, went outside and found a man walking south on Main Street.
He admitted to chasing the man to a Main Street residence, where he struck the front door with a bat and threatened his stepfather.
Initially Brojakowski was reluctant to tell officers where the bat was, but then admitted it was at his residence.
As of Tuesday, Brojakowski remained at Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $10,000 bail.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. on July 23 before District Judge Christopher Szewczyk.
