Assault Over 'Stack of $100 Bills' Leads to Drug Bust

A local woman with a history of drug and other arrests was arrested twice recently first on assault and other charges, and then felony and misdemeanor drug charges.

Amanda Parent, 24, of Branch Turnpike in Concord, was arrested at 3:54 p.m. on Aug. 24, 2015, and charged with simple assault, domestic violence-simple assault, false imprisonment, domestic violence-false imprisonment, and breach of bail. At 2:42 p.m. on Sept. 9, she was charged with six counts of possession of controlled drugs, five of them felonies, two counts of possession of prescription drugs without a prescription, and possession with intent to distribute controlled drugs, a felony.

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At just after 2 p.m., officers were sent to Branch Turnpike for a domestic disturbance between a man and woman, with police reportedly hearing a man screaming, “Help me, help me,” from inside the apartment. When no one answered the door, police kicked it in and separated the parties.

Parent, according to a court affidavit, allegedly told officers that she and the man had been sleeping and she got up to take a shower. She reportedly took her purse in the bathroom because it had her cellphone and cash inside. When she finished showering and exited the bathroom, the man grabbed her purse and told Parent he was taking the money.

“Parent said there was a large stack of $100 bills and (the man) grabbed them and she said all the money that was in her pursed belonged to her,” according to the report. “Parent said she asked (him) for her money back and if he refused to give it back to her, she told him she was going to call the police.”

Parent reportedly called police but the phone hung up and then he threw her on the bed and tossed her around as they were fighting over the money, according to the report.

“Parent stated (he) ran toward the window and he, ‘pretended to yell for help,’” the officer alleged.

The man, however, stated that he asked for a ride to work and said if she was unable to give him one, he would call a family member. He then asked for his keys and his money and when he reached into her purse to get his itesm, she allegedly “freaked out.” He took his money and the argument escalated, he stated, and he began to pack up his belongings to leave. Parent, however, reportedly kept moving his clothes around, tossing them around the room, in an attempt to keep him from leaving. When he went to leave the bedroom, “Parent stood in the doorway and used her body to block the exit,” the report alleged.

“Baby, I want you to stay,” she allegedly stated while blocking the door, according to the report. When he insisted on leaving, “Parent got angry with him and attacked him.” The man alleged that Parent scratched him in the face and bit him on the shoulder and the officer noted scratch marks on his forehead and redness on his shoulder.

Parent was then arrested and held on $8,000 cash bail.

Drug charges

During the investigation into the alleged assault and false imprisonment case, four officers and a sergeant were called to the apartment and allegedly documented “items in plain view within Parent’s bedroom that were indicative of drug use and sales,” according to a second affidavit. More than $5,000 in cash was allegedly in her purse along with baggies and a scale.

Officers and a detective investigated the incident and spoke to informants who alleged that Parent “was a drug dealer and primarily dealt in the prescription drug Percocet.” One informant reportedly provided details about her alleged drug dealing including trips to Lawrence, MA, to purchase large amounts of the pills, which she would reportedly sell out of the apartment.

“(One informant) said that Parent would sell to at least 20-30 people a day,” according to the investigation. “(The informant) said that Parent had a serious cocaine/crack cocaine habit (and) would either purchase cocaine/crack or trade Percocet for cocaine/crack from dealers.”

The informant also alleged that she had put down $9,000 cash for a new Toyota and had tens of thousands of dollars in various bank accounts.

Officers, according to the report, later spoke with Parent about the situation and she allegedly stated that she was bankrolling and supplying the cash and others had the connections.

“Parent became upset and informed the officers that (the informant) was the ‘bitch’ and she was being ‘real’ and something to the effect of (he) would ‘get his on the street,’” according to the detective. “Parent said that the drugs were all hers and everything in the apartment was hers.”

An inventory of the apartment allegedly including numerous pills, $6,782 in cash, a safe, pouches, crack pipes, a razor and inserts for pens, a grinder, two digital scales, marijuana in plastic baggies, and a bag full of needles and a spoon, according to the affidavit.

The affidavit arrest warrant on the drug charges was filed on Aug. 31, 2015, and on Sept. 9, Parent, who was being housed at the Carroll County House of Corrections, was charged.

According to online reports, Parent, who was living in Manchester at the time, was arrested in Bedford in September 2011 on driving and drug charges. Two months later, she was arrested again in Bedford on a bench warrant.

In August 2014, she was arrested on criminal mischief and theft charges after allegedly slashing a former lover’s car at the Makris Lobster and Steak House.

In June of this year, she was arrested on a felony possession of a prescription drug count.

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