Daniel J. Desmond Jr., who has been indicted for perjury, is now facing more charges after police said he threatened to kill a Brockton woman.

BROCKTON – Former West Bridgewater police officer Daniel J. Desmond Jr., who has been indicted on a perjury charge, is now facing charges after he was accused of threatening to kill a city woman, according to Brockton police.

Brockton police on Monday charged Desmond, a Brockton resident, with obstruction of justice by intimidating a witness and threat to commit a crime, court documents show.



Desmond, 41, who was fired from his police job in February, was not arrested. He was summoned to court and is scheduled to be arraigned on the new charges in Brockton District Court on Aug. 5, a court clerk said.



Desmond reportedly went to the woman’s home about 6 p.m. Monday and the two discussed an upcoming hearing, set for Tuesday, before the Civil Service Commission, in which he would appeal his firing, court documents show.



Hours later, shortly before 11 p.m. Monday, Desmond went to the Brockton police station and told a lobby officer that he had visited the woman, whom he described to police as his girlfriend, at her Brockton home earlier in the evening, court documents show.



The woman had obtained a restraining order against Desmond in December, but a judge lifted the order in January. Desmond told police the two are in a relationship and that he spends most of his time at her home.



Monday night, Desmond told police the woman was set to testify at the hearing Tuesday because Desmond “is trying to get his (police) job back after being terminated,” court documents show.



Desmond told police he did not want her “to jeopardize herself by testifying at the hearing to avoid perjury charges,” court documents show.



While speaking with the woman at her home Monday, Desmond told police her estranged husband pulled into the driveway and began screaming at him to leave the house, court documents show.



Desmond told police he left the home, called police and then went to the Brockton police station.



While speaking with Desmond in the station lobby, officer Kristen O’Brien-Hilliard saw that an emergency call was earlier made to police by the woman, who had said Desmond had threatened her, according to the documents.



The woman had told Brockton officers that Desmond “threatened to kill her when he was leaving the home,” court documents show.



Desmond “continued to tell her she was not going to the hearing and that she and her husband had ruined his life,” officer Chris Kerr, who responded, wrote in his report. “Daniel then took his sunglasses off and broke them up in his hand and also began to kick (the woman’s) snowblower ... as Daniel was leaving he yelled to her, ‘I’ll (expletive) kill you.’”



Desmond denied threatening the woman to O’Brien-Hilliard and told the officer the woman was lying, court documents show.



Desmond’s attorney, Tim Burke of Needham, could not be reached for comment Wednesday afternoon. In February, Burke said his client was appealing the town’s decision to fire him.



Minutes after leaving the police station about 11 p.m. Monday, Desmond called Brockton police again and told officers the woman has a copy of his house keys and that he wants the keys back, court documents show. A Brockton officer then went to the woman’s home and retrieved the keys.



Monday’s incident followed another police call in Stoughton involving Desmond, police said.



Stoughton police received a disturbance call several weeks ago involving Desmond, but he was not charged, said Stoughton Deputy Police Chief Robert Devine.



Devine on Wednesday did not release the date of that call or further details about the disturbance.



Desmond was arraigned in Brockton Superior Court on May 6, after a Plymouth County grand jury indicted him on a perjury charge. He is due back in Superior Court on July 9.



