Boscawen Man Arrested Twice After Fight with Girlfriend

A local man is facing multiple charges after a fight with his girlfriend while driving on Manchester Street.

Nathan L. Pelletier, 29, of High Street in Boscawen, was arrested at 10:40 a.m. and 1:02 p.m. on July 19, and charged with simple assault, false imprisonment, and default or breach of bail conditions.

According to arrest reports and a court affidavit, police were called to the area of Airport Road at around 10 a.m. after a witness reported seeing a person trying to push a man out of a vehicle. The vehicle was described as a cranberry colored minivan, heading towards Manchester Street.

Officers headed to the area and also informed Pembroke Police about the situation.

About 10 minutes later, while on Manchester Street, a sergeant saw two people shouting at each other near a black Chevrolet Trailblazer on the side of the road outside Banks Chevrolet. The sergeant saw a woman at the rear passenger door leaning back as if to pull herself away from the car. A man was holding onto the front collar of her shirt from the front passenger seat. The sergeant pulled up behind the vehicle and separated the parties involved, including a man, two women, and a young girl.

The sergeant asked the man, Pelletier, what was going on and he allegedly said, “Nothing.” When asked why he was pulling on the woman’s shirt, he reportedly refused to answer. The sergeant noticed red marks around his eye and he reportedly stated that he banged his face on the dashboard.

“I got the distinct impression that this was done intentionally,” the sergeant reported.

The sergeant spoke to one woman, Pelletier’s mother, who was driving the vehicle and reported that the two were quarrelling inside. The other woman asked her to stop, so she could get out, so she pulled over. The mother denied that either assaulted the other. When asked why Pelletier was pulling on his girlfriend’s shirt, the mother looked at the sergeant “with a puzzled expression” and stated, “They do this all the time; he just didn’t want her to leave.”

The sergeant then spoke to the woman who stated that the fight was about Pelletier’s alleged drug use. She kept asking to be let out of the vehicle and finally was. She was reaching to get her daughter out of the back of the vehicle when the police arrived. When asked about the grabbing of the shirt, the woman didn’t respond but later, asked the sergeant to just let them leave. When the sergeant said Pelletier was going to be arrested, she requested that they not do it in front of her daughter, according to the report.

Witnesses and another officer also arrived at the scene, according to the report.

One witness reported seeing a “woman being pulled by her shirt into the car,” while shouting and crying. The woman tried to get away but the man kept pulling her back into the vehicle, the witness alleged. Another witness described it as a “tug-of-war going on between someone in the car and a woman in her thirties.”

During the investigation, Pelletier allegedly kept yelling at his girlfriend, who was seated on the ground with a child, crying. Officers told him several times to be quiet, according to the report.

Pelletier was arrested and released on $4,000 personal recognizance bail, with an arraignment date set for Aug. 25. Conditions of the bail prohibited Pelletier from being 300 feet from the victim.

About 20 minutes later, police were sent to White Park for a report of a couple fighting.

Officers arrived at the scene and found all four people involved in the previous incident at a vehicle in the park. Pelletier was allegedly in the passenger’s seat and reportedly told officers that he didn’t know his girlfriend was going to be there.

“Then he said that his mother was the only one that could bring them all home,” the officer alleged before arresting Pelletier again.

He was held without bail and arraigned on July 21.

Editor’s note: The following 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 arrest report.