CONCORD, NH — A multi-month investigation into a dating app hookup led to a man from Center Barnstead, now of Sandown, being charged with eight assault counts.
On Aug. 3, 2025, an officer took a report of a past tense sexual assault that occurred at Target on D’Amante Drive a few days before. A woman in her early 20s said the incident involved a man she had conversations with on Feeld, a dating app “for the open-minded,” Fet, a sadomasochist app, and Snapchat, sometime between 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. on July 31, 2025, in his pickup truck. She knew the man only as “Jake,” and said the truck was a newer Dodge Ram 2500.
Before the meetup, she had been communicating with Jake for several weeks. She claimed he deleted their Feeld conversations after the incident, while she had deleted him from her Snapchat connections. Their communications were stored on Fet, she said, and she provided the officer with information.
The woman said she agreed to meet the man for a “quickie” in a family bathroom at Target. However, before meeting him, she went into the store and realized it did not have one. Instead, they found a remote area of the parking lot and decided to hook up in his truck.
The pair were engaged in consensual activity, but she told the officer, as things went along, he became violent.
The woman said the man grabbed her breasts aggressively, which she did not agree to, the report said. He slapped her repeatedly with an open hand, which she agreed to, but after telling him he was hurting her, “he did not listen” or stop, the report stated.
They both began to have sex in the truck, and she said the man hurt her during one of the acts, and she attempted to push him away but was unable to, the affidavit said. After biting him lightly, he still did not stop, the report said. She accused the man of continuing to hurt her by slapping her in the buttocks, head, and jaw, the report stated, about eight times.
The woman claimed he put a dog leash on her and began pulling and tugging at her, and she struggled to breathe, the report stated. She also accused him of other acts, even though they previously agreed to refrain from those activities, an affidavit said. Repeatedly, she said, she used a “safe word” in order to get him to stop, but he did not, an affidavit said.
At this point, she was screaming and telling him to stop, as her head pounded against the door of the truck, but he refused, the report stated. She attempted to access the truck’s door to escape, but could not. She also said he recorded video of the incident on his cellphone, which was agreed to beforehand, the report stated.
After the interview, the victim was taken to Concord Hospital for evaluation, and evidence was collected in a SANE Kit.
Editor’s note: This post was derived from information supplied by the Concord Police Department and Concord District Court and does not indicate a conviction. This link explains how to request the removal of a name from New Hampshire Patch police reports.
An officer began investigating the dating apps, then met with the Target asset protection team and obtained video footage from the store.
After speaking with the victim, in mid-August, the officer viewed the video and confirmed the pickup truck arrived just past 8 p.m., as well as her car, a sedan with a Maine registration.
On Aug. 18, 2025, additional video from Target was obtained, confirming the victim had entered the store earlier that evening and appeared to be texting on her cellphone.
A week later, the victim spoke with police after the man reached out to her on Snapchat, asking how she was. A search warrant was requested from Snapchat, connected to the name, and granted by a judge.
On Sept. 10, 2025, the pair communicated on Snapchat, with the victim giving her perspective of the encounter.
“I want to try you again,” the man wrote, according to an affidavit.
“So you can violate me again or what rape (me) again?,” the woman wrote back.
“No,” he was accused of writing, “Now we know your limits. You say safeword (sic) and i will stop.”
“Now?,” she wrote back, “We already spoke of limits. “You knew I didn’t want (that).”
“I already apologized and said that was an accident,” he was accused of saying. “Can we move past that?”
Several messages were exchanged, in which the woman said, while she liked “certain parts,” he was assaulting her, did things they agreed would not happen, and he would not stop despite her trying to get him to stop, the affidavit said.
The officer took screenshots of the interaction and submitted them into evidence, the report stated.
On Sept. 19, 2025, the officer identified the man as Garrett Michael Reed, 35, based on his email and phone number associated with the Snapchat account. More information was gathered from one police contact — a traffic stop in April 2024, which led to DMV records, and identifying the truck.
Ten days later, a search warrant was requested for Reed’s cellphone, and data from cellphone towers confirmed the roads he drove to before getting to Concord, confirming he was in the city “during the established timeframe,” the report stated.
On Oct. 10, 2025, a search warrant was requested and approved, and officers went to his ex-girlfriend’s home in Center Barnstead for an interview.
Reed, the report stated, consented to be interviewed and denied assaulting anyone and said there was a conversation before the encounter, and everything was agreed upon beforehand. He said he met other people on the apps and planned to meet with the woman again, the report stated. Reed described the activity that occurred to police, but “appeared avoidant and nervous about discussing details” that occurred in the pickup truck, the affidavit stated. He was also accused of confirming he used a dog leash but did not remember choking her with it, adding, “I don’t think that happened.”
Reed also said another activity the woman did not agree to was an accident, the report stated.
When asked if he had recorded the encounter, he first said, “No,” the report stated. But when asked if he was sure, Reed admitted he had videos, did not keep them, said they were too dark, and had only recorded part of the encounter, the affidavit said.
During more of the interview, Reed was accused of being unable to “conclusively confirm” what was consensual and nonconsensual during the encounter.
Two of his cellphones were confiscated, the report stated.
A review of his cellphone data later showed Reed was interacting with women about being submissive and what their limits were on the app, which showed an “inability to respect clear boundaries that women have,” the officer wrote.
Reed, now of Driftwood Circle in Sandown, was arrested on May 20 on two aggravated felonious sexual assault and two second-degree assault charges, all felonies, as well as four simple assault charges. He was released on personal recognizance on May 21 with GPS monitoring by pretrial services, a curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. every day, no use of the Internet, and continued “mental health treatment,” with proof provided to pretrial services, according to court documents.
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