Dexter police handle multiple incidents

DEXTER – A Corinna man was arrested for criminal threatening and summoned for driving to endanger after an incident on Monday that involved a dispute with the man’s son-in-law.

The incident was one of several unrelated matters handled recently by Dexter police.

Dalton Mullis, 62, and his son-in-law John Crosby, 34, were in separate vehicles on Monday when Mullis turned his vehicle around in Dexter and began to follow Crosby’s vehicle, according to Dexter Police Chief Art Roy.

When Crosby noticed that Mullis was following his vehicle, Crosby stopped, and Mullis approached his window, Roy said.

Crosby, who had his 31/2-year-old daughter with him, told police that Mullis threatened him by telling him that he had a weapon in his vehicle.

A few minutes later, after the two resumed driving, Mullis allegedly rammed the back of Crosby’s vehicle, according to the police chief.

Mullis is expected to make his initial court appearance in Newport District Court on July 20.

In a separate incident, Daniel Briggs, 52, of Dexter was charged with assault on Tuesday night after he allegedly stopped the driver of an all-terrain vehicle and pulled off his helmet to see who it was, according to Christine Pooler, a Dexter Police Department dispatcher.

Briggs claimed that Ryan Hathaway, 20, the ATV operator, had been traveling on the public way when he made the stop, Pooler said.

Hathaway, who claimed he was driving the vehicle off-road, was charged with operating an ATV on a public way. Both men are expected to make their initial court appearances in Newport District Court on July 20.

Dexter police are also investigating a break-in at a Silvers Mills Road home.

Pooler said an outside door was forced open to gain entry into a garage. And inside the garage, a door to the house was kicked in.

Taken from the home was a can of half-dollars, a tin of quarters and checkbook receipts, Pooler said. Nothing else was disturbed, she said.

Anyone who saw suspicious activity on the Silvers Mills Road between Saturday and Tuesday afternoons should call the Dexter Police Department at 924-7622.