Albany, NY (WRGB) — A 46-year-old Loudonville man was found guilty on eight charges after prosecutors said he broke into his estranged wife’s home, terrorized the family and chased them with a machete in June 2024.
Albany County District Attorney Lee C. Kindlon announced that Thomas Sorensen was convicted following a four-day jury trial before Judge Richard Rivera. Sorensen was found guilty of burglary in the first degree, criminal contempt in the first degree, criminal mischief in the third degree, three counts of endangering the welfare of a child, criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and burglary in the second degree.
Prosecutors said that just after 6 a.m. on June 22, 2024, Sorensen broke into his wife’s home days after she obtained a court order requiring him to stay away. He began screaming inside the home, waking the victims as they slept in their bedrooms, and wrestled a phone out of a victim’s hand as she tried to call police, according to the district attorney’s office…