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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Man allegedly threatened to kill after anger management class
DAYTON — Police arrested a man who, fresh from his first anger management class, threatened to kill his 84-year-old mother and three other people on Tuesday, Jan. 6.
Officers responded to the 1900 block of Coventry Avenue at about 6:30 p.m. after receiving a call that a woman’s son was yelling at her, according to a police report. When officers arrived they discovered a visibly shaken 84-year-old woman whose son told police he was upset that she was telling someone else “my business.”
After officers separated mother and son, they learned that the son had just been to the VA hospital for his first anger management class that day. The woman told police the son, 49, threatened to kill her, her health care nurse, the nurse’s son and a neighbor, the report said.
The son told his mother “that he was going to kill her, then blindfold (the nurse), take a baseball bat to his head, and then later on, everyone would find (the nurse’s) baby in a dumpster far away,” the report said.
The mother said she was frightened of her son and wanted to press charges because “something needs to happen.”
The son was arrested on a charge of aggravated menacing.
TweetFrom wildlife biology to Dayton police sergeant
In the early 1970s, Dennis Chaney was close friends with a fellow Fairmont East High School student whose father was a sergeant with the Dayton Police Department. Later, while in college at South Dakota State, Chaney received a call from the friend’s father, who said the department was hiring.
“That was the furthest thing from what I thought I would be doing,” Chaney said. “I was taking wildlife biology.”
While on a break, Chaney took the department test and returned to school. Soon after, he received a card in the mail asking him to return to Dayton because he was high in the list of candidates. The department wanted him to interview.
“I had to make a decision,” Chaney said, “and I never looked back.”
Thirty-five years later, a crowded room saluted the 55-year-old Chaney on Wednesday, Jan. 7, for his retirement after 35 years with the DPD. A sergeant, Chaney was head of the robbery squad, financial crimes unit and the bomb squad.
Chaney will move on to a job with a company that contracts with the military.
“They seek people with law enforcement experience, primarily in investigation,” Chaney said over a background of heavy conversation, coffee and pastries. “You’re assigned to a branch of the service, Army or Marines, and you go where they go, do what they do, wear what they wear, and you help advise them on investigations they’re responsible for doing.”
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