Legal Question in Criminal Law in Massachusetts

: Threatened w/ violence, WPD no help

Your company needs to contact the Mall and the chief of the local police department.

Moreover, you could seek to file a criminal complaint, but then you would identifying information about the person who threatened you.

You can also contact the town's legislative person and/or the town's administrator.

You should not have to beg for protection or redress.

If you have any other questions, please contact me.

Re: Threatened w/ violence, WPD no help

They say that "the devil is in the details," and there are enough details missing from your story that I don't completely understand the specifics of what happened. In any event, I'm not convinced that trying to press criminal charges was the wisest course of action, under the circumstances. Rather, I suggest that a better alternative might have been (and still is) to have the police serve a "no trespass" order on the perpetrator, if you are concerned for your safety. If you do so, you may designate both your store and your residence (if you think that's warranted) as places to be protected. Once the perpetrator has been served with the "no trespass" order by the police, he will be subject to immediate arrest if he violates the order by trespassing on the protected property. Of course, this would not afford you absolute protection under every possible scenario of events, but it will give you some measure of protection, and hopefully will send the appropriate message to the perpetrator. Good luck.