SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP — Police responded to two separate incidents within four hours of each other involving middle-aged men scaring neighbors by allegedly waving guns around.

        Ronald Rudman, 38, of 6234 Marie Ave. walked into his back yard at 5:18 p.m. Friday and pushed a privacy fence onto a neighbor trying to install the fence, according to police reports. Officers say he then pointed a loaded .22-caliber rifle at his neighbor.

        “He was mad that the fence was leaning on his fence,” an officer wrote in a police report.

        Mr. Rudman was charged with aggravated menacing and was released on a $1,500 bond late Saturday.

        At 8:34 p.m., township police received a call about a man shooting a shotgun in the air near the corner of Highland and Simpson avenues.

        When police arrived, the man, Stanford Towns (aka Townes), 43, of the 2000 block of Highland Avenue had gone back into his house and refused to come out.

        Police called him on the phone and persuaded him to give up.

        Mr. Towns is charged with having a weapon under disability and inducing panic in connection to the incident. He remained in jail late Saturday.

        Mr. Towns is an ex-convict with prior convictions for robbery in 1978 and attempted robbery in 1982, according to police.

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