CT man accused of threatening Staples employee on social media using ‘Family Guy’ reference

A Chaplin man faces charges for allegedly threatening an employee at a Staples store in Willimantic when he took to social media to reference a violent episode of a cartoon.

Jeremy Bassett, 42, has been charged with second-degree threatening and second-degree breach of peace in connection with an incident last month when he had a hard time returning an iPad he had purchased, according to the Connecticut State Police.

According to the warrant affidavit for his arrest, Bassett went...