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The incident took place in Bridgeport on Monday, Oct. 2 on the 80th block of Elmwood Avenue.
According to police, Morris Roberts, age 52, of Bridgeport, was charged after police responded to the apartment house where his mother once lived before her death, for a report of an assault with a dangerous weapon.
On-scene reports indicated Roberts had an altercation with a person known to him and the person received a non-life-threatening wound from a machete, said Scott Appleby, director of Emergency Mangement for Bridgeport.
Roberts was arresated on the scene and charged with:
- Conspiracy to commit murder
- Criminal trespass
- Criminal mischief
- Assault
- Threatening
- Reckless endagerment
- Carrying a dangerous weapon
- Physical threat
He is being held on a $85,000 bond.
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