An 82-year-old Laramie man, Charles Wade, has been charged with three counts of aggravated assault and battery for threatening a nurse and Laramie Police Department officers with a handgun at his home on Hackney Drive.
According to an affidavit of probable cause, a health care nurse went to Wade’s house on Feb. 9 for prospective employment.
While inside, Wade allegedly led the nurse to the basement, when he touched her breasts and butt and then offered her $1,000 to take nude photos of her.
The nurse told police that, while in the basement, Wade “prevented the victim from leaving, that he propositioned her to have sex and about sleeping with various females,” the affidavit states.
Before the nurse was eventually able to leave, Wade showed her three handguns and told her that if he didn’t contact her within 2-3 days, that “he had probably blown his brains out and showed her where the hidden key was located.”
The nurse returned two days later, but this time, another man accompanied her and parked this car across the street while the nurse entered.
The nurse later told police that when he went inside, she looked out the window where her friend was parked.
Wade then went to his bedroom and returned with a pistol, which he reportedly put to the nurse’s head and said “if he comes in here, I’ll blow your brains out and kill him.”
The nurse ran from the house.
As she fled, Wade allegedly walked to the front door and pointed the gun at the man waiting in his car.
LPD officer Dan Applehans then called Wade and told him that police were coming to his house and that he needed to come talk to them at the front door, unarmed.
Instead, when Applehans and three other officers arrived, Wade opened the garage door and walked out, pointing the gun at the officers.
After given three warnings to drop his gun, Wade finally did and was taken into custody.
While being interviewed by police, Wade denied ever fondling the woman but did “state to the victim that she was beautiful, could live in his residence and that maybe they then could eventually have sex together.”
Wade said that he “wished law enforcement would have shot him when he came out of the garage” but denied having ever pointed his gun at the nurse or her friend.
Wade was charged with three counts of aggravated assault and battery, one count of sexual battery, and one count of reckless endangering.
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