Marlborough Police: Armed Westborough Man Sent “Chilling” Texts to Ex

By Sam Bonacci

Marlborough Police arrested a Westborough man on Wednesday after he allegedly told his ex-girlfriend he would have a shootout with police.

“Nathan responded ‘good then I’ll have a shoot out with the police,’” Officer James Gough wrote in his police report of a statement given by the man’s ex-girlfriend when she told him the police were on the way.

Marlborough Police arrested Nathan David Wiesner, 23, of 50 West Main St., Apt. 16A, Westborough at the Westender after “Dispatch received a frantic 911 call" that a man who was stalking an employee was outside the building with a gun, and the dispatcher "stated that Nathan is licensed to carry in Massachusetts, owns a .44 Magnum which he always carries on his person," wrote Gough, who was among the officers who responded to the scene.

When police approached Wiesner — parked in a black Chevrolet Cavalier in front of the liquor store in the Westender plaza — he provided them with his license to carry, and they retrieved the revolver from the car, according to court documents.

“I could smell a pretty strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emanating from his mouth as he talked,” wrote Gough in his police report where Wiesner reportedly responded that he had drank one beer.

According to the police report, the ex-girlfriend stated they had dated for four years. During a court proceeding Thursday, it was revealed that the ex-girlfriend had allegedly been receiving texts from Wiesner.

Marlborough District Court Judge David Cunis said the texts — compiled in an email — the ex-girlfriend had received from Wiesner were “disturbing.”

“If she’s terrified, she has every right to be because this is chilling,” Cunis said.

Police had charged Wiesner with a false bomb/dangerous item threat, carrying a dangerous weapon and disturbing the peace.

The carrying a dangerous weapon charge was dismissed without prejudice as Wiesner has a license to carry. He was held pending a dangerousness hearing.