Alleged Drug Dealer Tased Twice by Concord Cops

CONCORD, NH — A local man with a history of resisting arrest, drug dealing, and other charges, was arrested earlier this month after allegedly refusing to leave a Warren Street home in Concord, according to a court affidavit. Tristan Roukey, 28, of Warren Street in Concord, was arrested on Feb. 8, 2017, on a resisting arrest or detention charge.

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An officer and a sergeant were sent to the home at around 1:45 p.m. for a report of a woman “being held at the residence against her will by a Tristan Roukey,” according to the affidavit. Dispatch also advised that Roukey had active warrants out of Merrimack County.

When police arrived, they met with a sheriff’s officer and spoke to the homeowner who alleged that Roukey was upstairs and allegedly wouldn’t leave. She reportedly told the officers that there was no one else in the home.

The officers went upstairs and cleared the front room and while doing so, reportedly “heard movement coming from a closet inside of an adjacent bedroom,” according to the affidavit. The officers took position while another announced their presence and ordered the person of the closet.

There was no response to the prompt so one of the officers attempted to open the door. But each time the officer pulled on the door, the report alleged, the door would slam back shut. After “several” attempts, the officer was able to get the door open.

“Inside the closet, I saw a white male subject wearing jeans and a dark colored sweatshirt matching the description of Tristan Roukey,” the reporting officer alleged.

Roukey was given verbal commands to come out of the closet but allegedly refused. One of the officers reportedly grabbed him by the arm and attempted to pull him out but he allegedly “kept pulling back from us despite the verbal commands to come out and to stop resisting,” according to the affidavit. A second officer attempted to pull him out, too, the court doc noted, but he allegedly continued to ignore commands and refused to stop resisting. One of the officers took out his Taser and warned Roukey to put his hands on his head and come out or he would be shot.

“Tristan refused to comply,” the reporting officer alleged.

A second officer gave the Taser warning and fired it at Roukey for 5 seconds, according to the affidavit, but he allegedly refused to leave the closet as ordered to. The officer reportedly gave him another order to come out and when he allegedly didn’t, Roukey was Tased again, the report noted.

After the second shock, Roukey reportedly agreed to comply with the order and he was taken out of the closet, placed on his stomach, but allegedly pulled his arm several times in an effort to not be handcuffed, the reporting officer stated. He eventually was handcuffed and removed from the home.

Roukey has been arrested a number of times during the past few years, according to reports online.

Back in April 2015, he was arrested by Rockingham Sheriffs after failing to appear in court on a theft charge. In March 2014, according to the New Hampshire Union Leader, Roukey was arrested on a resisting charge after fleeing from police in Manchester after being wanted on a Goffstown warrant for failing to pay a fine after being convicted for driving under the influence in 2013.

In March 2016, he was arrested on a felony theft of services charge after allegedly failing to pay for cab fare in January after being taken to Game Stop. It was kicked up to a felony due to two previous theft convictions. Police caught up to him two days later near a manufactured home on Manchester Street – knowing that he had a theft warrant – but when he saw police, he allegedly fled the area. Cops were able to catch up with him later though after Concord Fire and Rescue teams were sent to Grove Street for a report of a man rolling around on the ground, possibly from a drug reaction.

About seven months later, he was arrested again by sheriffs in Rockingham County for failing to appear at a probably cause hearing on a theft charge.

That same month, he was arrested on five felony charges of a sale of controlled drugs-fentanyl, a drug represented to be heroin, and methamphetamine, after alleged sales on East Side Drive, Manchester Street, and Loudon Road, in March and May 2016.

Roukey was indicted on the charges late last year.

Roukey was convicted previously of sale of a narcotic drug in Hillsborough County Superior Court-North in June 2009.