Some quick-thinking bystanders are getting credit for stopping a fight when things got out of control in the parking lot of a bar in Old Saybrook on Sunday night.
Police said Thomas Russo, of Old Saybrook, was drinking at the Monkey Farm Café on Boston Post Road and pointed a loaded 9mm Glock handgun just inches from another person’s face and yelled during a heated argument in the parking lot.
Bystanders were able to disarm Russo and threw the gun under a nearby car, police said.
Police arrested Russo around 11 p.m. and took the weapon.
No one was hurt.
Russo was charged with carrying a pistol without a permit and carrying a firearm while drunk.
He is being held on $150,000 bond.
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If he does not post bond, he will appear in the Middletown Superior Court on Tuesday.
