Man arrested after threatening wife at work with text photo of his rifle
Abilene Police Department's SWAT unit was dispatched Monday to a north-side residence after a man threatened his wife at work.
According to an APD report, the husband and wife were in an argument. He drove to her workplace, a nursing facility, and began to text and call her nonstop. He asked her to come outside but she refused, police said.
He then sent her a photo of a rifle in his vehicle at the site.
The woman told her boss, who shut down the nursing facility and called police.
The man returned home, to which police and a SWAT unit were dispatched. He was arrested following a traffic stop.
The man is charged with making a terroristic threat of family/household, compounded by interruption of a business and causing the SWAT unit to be called.
The man is in Taylor County Jail.
The victim is pressing charges.
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