Alleged Knife-Wielding Men Arrested On Charges In Concord

CONCORD, NH — Two men are facing charges after an alleged knife-wielding threat incident in the South End in December, according to police and court documents. Dylan J. Smith, 21, right, of Old Center Road in Deerfield, was arrested on Dec. 8, 2017, and charged with felony criminal threatening-use of a deadly weapon, criminal mischief-vandalism, and carry/sell weapons-switchblades, etc. Also charged was Robert V. Aliberti, 20, of Gates Street in Concord, for felony criminal threatening-use of a deadly weapon and carry/sell weapons-switchblades, etc.

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According to an affidavit, police were sent to a report of a fight on Thorndike Street in the South End at around 4:30 p.m. The reporting officer noted that there were “multiple calls” about the fight with reports that about four or five teenagers jumped out of a vehicle and began fighting with others. The callers reported that the teenagers seem intoxicated, were honking the horn of the vehicle, and ran up onto the porch of one of the homes in the 30 block.

“A second caller reported that there were four male teenagers (who were) threatening people on the porch with knives,” according to the affidavit.

The first officer at the scene saw people running from the address toward the area of the old Rumford School. More witnesses alleged that the teens possessed “multiple knives.”

The reporting officer as well as a third officer arrived in the area of Monroe Street and reportedly saw two men running from the area. The officers located the men – later identified as Smith and Aliberti – outside of the Moderno Barbershop on South Street, the report stated. They were held temporarily while other investigators on Thorndike Street attempted to find out what was going on.

At the scene, a sergeant learned that one person on Thorndike Street had suffered cuts from broken glass and others who had almost been stabbed, the report alleged. A witness reported that they were standing on a porch, smoking a cigarette, with others when they saw four men with knives running toward the porch, “waving the knives around at them in a threatening manner,” demanding money. The people on the porch attempted to run into the house, attempting to shut one of the doors to the home at which point one of the men smashed a window on that door, the affidavit alleged.

The people on the porch then began to scatter with the one who was smoking calling 911. The men then fled the scene, they alleged. Three other witnesses offered similar accusations. One of the witnesses stated that they believed the men were looking for another man who the men claimed owned them money, according to the report.

One witness knew one of the men as “Dylan,” the affidavit stated, and alleged he was “swinging the knife at everyone.” This witness stated that another person on the porch was cut with glass when the window on the door was smashed.

Concord Fire and Rescue teams assisted this person with treatment at the scene.

The sergeant then began transporting the witnesses to “show-ups” to see if Aliberti and Smith, who were being detained on South Street, were the same men involved in the alleged threat incident.

“That’s him,” one witness stated when an officer shined a light onto Aliberti’s face. “That’s the guy.”

“Without using a numerical scale, how certain are you?,” the officer asked one witness.

“Very certain,” the witness reported stated. “That’s him.”

The smoking witness alleged when an officer shined a spotlight on Smith that he was the one who allegedly smashed the door window.

“I’m 100 percent sure,” the witness reportedly stated.

The report stated that witnesses identified both Aliberti and Smith were allegedly involved in the incident, according to the affidavit, and they were arrested and held without bail.

Previously, according to posts on Patch, Smith was arrested in May 2016, on a theft charge. A month later, Rockingham Sheriffs arrested him on a bench warrant on a weapon charge. He was arrested on Jan. 14, 2017, on warrants and a possession of a controlled drug charge-methamphetamine. Smith was later indicted in Merrimack County Superior Court on the drug charge. He was arrested on a warrant in April 2017.

Aliberti was charged with three counts of possession of controlled drugs-meth, Lorazepam, marijuana, two that were felonies, and a carry/sell weapons-switch blades, etc., after an alleged incident at the Morning Star Apartments in December 2014.

Images via Concord Police.