The victim, who lives in Chicopee, was house-sitting at a Brynmawr Drive home.
EAST LONGMEADOW -- Police arrested a 49-year-old Chicopee man early Wednesday afternoon after he allegedly threatened to kill a woman with a knife and meat cleaver during a domestic altercation the day before at a Brynmawr Drive home.
Sgt. Denis Sheehan said police became aware of the alleged assault Wednesday after the woman, house-sitting at the Brynmawr Drive home, called police about noon and said that the suspect had shown up there and was taking items belonging to the homeowner.
Police arrested the suspect, Barry Allan McDonald, of School Street, Chicopee, a short distance away from the home. While he was being booked at the police station, officers discovered he was in possession of the Class A drug Clonazepam.
McDonald was charged with possession of that drug and two counts of larceny from a building.
Sheehan said officers learned that that McDonald allegedly went to the house the day before, threw the woman to the floor and threatened to kill her with a meat cleaver and knife.
McDonald was then also charged with assault by means of a dangerous weapon and threat to murder.
The victim has since obtained a restraining order against the suspect prohibiting him from going to the School Street residence that they shared in Chicopee, Sheehan said.