Happy Homes Construction CEO Arrested for Gun Threats in Tioga

The CEO of Happy Homes Construction, Drew Thomas Worthmann, 43, was arrested at his house in Tioga Tuesday afternoon for threatening IQ Fiber employees. 

The victims were present at Worthmann’s residence to install fiber optic cables, as the Tioga director of development hired IQ Fiber to install them throughout the neighborhood. 

Worthmann was returning to his house when he saw the crew present and reportedly became hostile. 

According to the arrest report, Worthmann went inside his house and soon after exited “with a metallic black handgun in his right hand… aggressively yelling at both victims as well as others on scene to leave from in front of his house, causing both victims to retreat away from the residence due to a well-founded fear they were going to be shot.”

Worthmann told police he wouldn’t speak to them without his lawyer. 

Worthmann has no bond right now, but his defense counsel has submitted a motion to set it at $20,000. The State Attorney’s Office has no objection to the motion.

According to the bond motion, Worthmann will not be permitted to contact IQ Fiber employees once he is out of jail, however, he “may remain in and access his residence even while IQ Fiber and its employees or agents are working within 500 feet of his home so long as [he] does not interact directly or indirectly with IQ Fiber or its employees or agents while entering or exiting his residence, nor at any other time.”