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North Stonington — A Voluntown man was hospitalized Sunday after he interrupted a service in a Jehovah’s Witness hall and attempted to cut the wires on the sound system in the building.

State police charged Paul Johnson, 34, of 116 Ekonk Hill Road, with first-degree criminal trespass, breach of peace and threatening after they say he walked through the front doors of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses on Route 184 carrying wire cutters at about 11:30 a.m.

Witnesses told police that Johnson, who was intoxicated, was “belligerent, threatening and caused alarm to approximately 104 members in attendance,” according to an arrest report.

Several members of the church stopped him from attempting to cut the wires to the sound system with the wire cutters and called police. No injuries were reported.

Johnson was arrested and later taken to the William W. Backus Hospital.