Alleged Gun Threat Leads to Charges

An argument about walking through private property turned into an alleged threat incident with two getting arrested last month, according to police.

Harry L. Sauve, 34, of Kimball Street in Manchester, was arrested at 7:30 p.m. on April 8, 2015, and charged with two counts of criminal threatening (intimidation, etc.). Also charged was Jessica N. Carter, 39, of Lake Street in Concord, was arrested for felony criminal liability for the conduct of another from March 26. She was also arrested on a bench warrant on April 2.

According to arrest reports and court affidavits, officers were sent to a home on Manchester Street for a report of a woman being threatened by a man with a gun. Dispatch reported that the suspects fled behind the gas station toward the City Side Grille.

The officers first spoke to two women who gave descriptions of a man and a woman who reportedly threatened them. One of the women said they were pulling onto Black Hill Road when they saw two people who looked homeless walking on her driveway. She reportedly asked them not to walk on the driveway and the female suspect said, “What’s the big deal?” The woman again requested that they leave her property or she would call the police and the man yelled, “What are they going to do?” The female suspect then began yelling at the women. The man allegedly stated that he would “get his b-tches to beat you up.”

The second woman got out of the car to assist the first woman while the other two continued to yell.

“(The woman) stated that Sauve then reached towards his waistband and stated that he would ‘shoot’ the two of them,” the officer reported. “I asked (her) what she thought Sauve’s intentions were. (She) stated she believed Sauve was going to pull out a gun and hurt her and (the other woman).”

The second woman gave a similar statement.

Other officers later caught up with Sauve and Carter in the woods behind the Sunoco station on Manchester Street and took them into custody. No gun was reportedly mentioned as being found in the reports.

Carter reportedly smelled like alcohol and admitted to drinking a couple of Twisted Teas earlier. She had an active warrant on a felony charge from the month before. Carter was also out on bail from a bench warrant arrest from April 2, 2015, after police were sent to Thorndike Street for an unwanted guest. She reportedly had an active warrant for theft by deception out of Concord District Court, $500 cash to settle.

Both Sauve and Carter were held without bail.

“While at HQ, Carter was very difficult to process and she was having drastic mood swings and she was yelling and screaming the entire time she had been in the holding cell,” the officer alleged.

According to a court affidavit from March 26, 2015, Carter was reportedly hired by a couple to watch over their child while they were out. On this particular day, their child came home from school and Carter reportedly wasn’t there. The door of the home was left open. Later, after reviewing security footage, the couple alleged that Carter allowed a male friend to come into the home and steal a safe. They both then left. The safe had about $3,000 cash in it.

When interviewing Carter about the incident, she reportedly denied that she was hired to watch the child and said she had been staying at the home. She allegedly admitted to the officer that she was an addict but was trying to clean up. Carter allegedly said that the other man just showed up and she didn’t have a phone to report the theft of the safe.

“Carter’s account of what happened in the apartment with (the male suspect) did not match up with my observations,” the officer alleged.

Editor’s note: This post was derived from information supplied by the Concord Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction. Click this link to find out how to get a name removed from a New Hampshire Patch police report.