Threats at Chatham ‘health facility’

A Chatham man faces charges after apparently freaking out at what police will only say was a “local health facility” Thursday afternoon.

Police say a man walked into the front lobby of this nameless “facility” on Grand Avenue West in Chatham and asked to speak with staff before making threatening statements toward two employees who were not present at the time.

Officers arrived and located the suspect.

They learned that on Sept. 10, the same man had been hit with a probation order to not attend this “local health facility” except for pre-scheduled appointments or a medical emergency.

A 52-year-old Chatham man is charged with two counts of uttering threats to cause death and one of failing to comply with a probation order.

Treating the “facility” like yet another of their inanimate victims, Chatham-Kent police only said it was on Grand Avenue West.

However, if you are a patient at one of the numerous primary care and diagnostic imaging “facilities” on Grand Avenue West, or the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance’s hospital in Chatham, you really have no exact idea where this took place.

Neither do we. Well, we can guess it was the CKHA site, as police mentioned “a medical emergency” in their cryptic news release, but we can’t definitively say it is.

We certainly hope the poor “facility” is recovering from this experience.