Training School employee arrested after alleged workplace threat

SOUTHBURY — A Waterbury woman was arrested Sunday after police say she threatened a coworker at the Southbury Training School last month.

Tanee Serice Snow, 43, was charged with second-degree threatening following a state police investigation into a complaint filed by a state employee at the training school July 28.

The employee told police she had been assaulted by Snow, her supervisor, during a temperature check four days earlier at the school, which serves as a residential facility for adults with intellectual disabilities.

The employee said all Southbury Training School staff and residents are required to have their temperatures taken each shift, and supervisors signed “an in service” stating that thermometers should not have skin contact, according to police.

But on the morning of July 24, the employee told police, Snow slapped the thermometer on her forehead “with a lot of force” and “started to laugh,” according to the arrest warrant affidavit.

“She deliberately smacked the thermometer to my forehead and pushed it hard enough for me to fall back and realize it was done on purpose to provoke us into a physical altercation, which did not happen,” the employee said in a written statement to police.

The employee told police she reported the incident a higherup and a human’s rights employee at the training school.

After that, she said, Snow threatened to harm her and others “if her job (was) on the line due to her threatening behavior” and “stated that she has a gun,” the arrest warrant affidavit states.

The employee said she reported those statements to higherups as well before filing a report with state police.

According to police, a Southbury Training School director said there was an in-house investigation underway and that Snow had been transferred to another cottage in the meantime.

After learning Snow had a revoked Connecticut pistol permit and owned two firearms, state and Waterbury police obtained a search and arrest warrant, which was executed at Snow’s Waterbury residence on Sunday.

State police did not say if any firearms were found at the residence.

Snow was arrested and arraigned at state Superior Court in Waterbury earlier this week.

She was released after posting $10,000 bond and her next court date is scheduled for Oct. 16.

Hearst Connecticut Media file photo Southbury Training School