PD: Man Brandishing Sawed-Off Shotgun Urged Woman Repay Debt

A Hartford man is charged with threatening a city woman with a sawed-off shotgun in an attempt to collect money he is owed, according to Middletown Police.

The following police reports come from the Middletown Police public information officer. Individuals named here reflect charges filed, never a conviction.

On Oct. 22 at 5:03 p.m., police were called to an apartment building at 127 Grand Street about an unwanted person, Efrain Colon, 35, of Enfield Street, Hartford, who was demanding money from a woman who lived there while brandishing a large gun, according to the report. 

Police found Colon in a friend's apartment in the same high-rise apartment complex and a search revealed he had a 16-gauge Browning semiautomatic shotgun that had been cut down to 12 inches, according to the report. 

Back at police headquarters, the report says, Colon waived his rights and offered a sworn statement detailing his attempt to collect a debt while carrying the gun that he had brought from home.

He was charged with breach of peace, possession of a sawed-off shotgun, criminal possession of a firearm and first-degree threatening. He is a felon with multiple convictions, according to the Connecticut Judicial website, for narcotics, larcenies and violent assaults dating back as far as 2008.

Colon is being held on a $75,000 bond and is due back in court on Oct. 31.