MIDDLETOWN — A married couple was booked into the Middletown City Jail Wednesday, June 3, after the husband was accused of threatening his wife’s life at a Middletown City Schools building.

Rex Farmer, 39, of Cincinnati, was arrested and charged with aggravated menacing and inducing panic, both misdemeanors, after Middetown police said he showed up at his wife’s workplace at 10:45 a.m. at the district’s testing facility near Middletown High School on Manchester Road, threatening to shoot his wife.

Farmer, who did not have any weapons, was arrested without incident and no one was injured, said Middletown police Lt. Rodney Muterspaw, who added that Farmer was cooperative as police questioned him.

Farmer’s wife, Terri J. Farmer, a secretary at the district’s vehicle service center, also was arrested during the incident on a charge of obstructing official business, Muterspaw said.

Muterspaw said she purposefully told police a truck in the parking lot was not her husband’s. Muterspaw said she hindered police investigations by telling the officers that she had driven the truck.

High school students released early from school because of final exams swarmed around the parking lot where Rex Farmer apparently was waiting for his wife, who was testing inside the Manchester building, said Debbie Alberico, the district’s communication specialist.

“Luckily, nobody was hurt,” said Muterspaw.

Rex and Terri Farmer were released from jail on bond Wednesday afternoon. Both are scheduled to be arraigned at 9 a.m. Friday, June 5, in Middletown Municipal Court.

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