I agree with you.
Sounds like he was looking for an audience.
What sort of nonsense is this that he get dragged into court just because some busybody was walking by and reported him? They (the police) should have just laughed at this woman - even if her own husband is a cop too. Hell, if I was a cop and my wife reported something like that, I'd laugh at her too.
There used to be a time in America when old cranks and nutcases just got laughed at. These days, we give them way too much attention.