The York Sheriff’s Department arrested a Sanford man on Friday after he allegedly threatened to bomb the Central Maine Power office after a dispute with customer service.
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The Sheriff’s Department received a complaint from the power company on Thursday, reporting a dispute between Sean Grenier, 33, of Sanford, and a customer service representative.
They told law enforcement that Grenier allegedly told the customer service employee that he would come plant a bomb at their Alfred office.
Deputies investigated the complaint and eventually obtained a court-issued arrest warrant for Grenier on a charge of terrorizing.
Grenier was arrested at his home at approximately 6:30 p.m. on Friday.
He was transported to the York County Jail and issued a $2,500 bail, which he was unable to pay.
Takes me back to the days when I could walk into a CMP office and pay a bill. Then in the ’90’s those offices mostly stopped customer contact scenarios. Fences up, doors locked. Today both CMP and Versant are gated industries. First they’ll tell you they don’t make the power but simply deliver it. 30 cents per KWH and who’s going to answer for that?
Surprised this doesn’t happen more often.
One shouldn’t threaten to do something like this, but isn’t there something involving the realistic ability to do it? When those offices are barricaded more securely than many military installations, exactly how was this man supposed to be able to put a bomb in there?
And hence, at what point does threatening to put a bomb there becomes something on the level of threatening to zap them with his Jewish Space Laser or Romulan Disrupter?
It’s only terrorizing if it’s a credible threat, and if it’s not possible for him to get into the CMP office, let alone put a bomb in there, where is the crime?
Were I on the jury, I’d be hard pressed to convict him on this. Not a more realistic point of view, they’re gonna have fun finding 12 jurors that don’t think that CMP deserved something like this. That’s called “jury nullification” — jurors simply don’t have to convict a guilty person if they don’t want to.
He should have looked at the democrats, not CMP. CMP is a collection agency/delivery agency. Bill to high, look at your neighbors solar system you are paying for.
I love the keyboard warriors who ignorantly run their mouths on the billing of CMP and Versant. Complete ignorance of just how little the 2 companies get from the total bill. Educate yourselves before you make yourselves look like idiots. If you want to blame someone, blame Dana Dow who started us down this road and the moron Democrats who have regulated things to oblivion to satisfy their puppet masters in the solar and environmental movements