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Police: Bingham man tries to steal chairs, wields machete

When a woman tried to stop Hart with a garden, he then reportedly swung a machete, leaving a few nicks in the hoe's handle.
Dwight Nathan Hart

BINGHAM, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Police say a Maine man allegedly tried to steal lawn chairs from a woman's yard, and then swung a machete when the woman tried to stop him.

Police say Dwight Nathan Hart, of Bingham, pulled his pickup truck into a yard in the town of Moscow and started taking lawn chairs.

When a woman tried to stop Hart with a garden hoe, he then reportedly swung a machete, leaving a few nicks in the hoe's handle.

Hart was charged with criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and criminal trespassing in connection with the confrontation Sunday evening.

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