Concord Twosome Allegedly Involved in Knife Robbery

A pair of relatively new Concord residents with a number of previous arrests under their belts are in more trouble with the law after allegedly running up thousands in fraudulent credit card charges and being involved in a robbery that was eerily similar to the Durgin Block Parking Garage stabbing case from earlier this year.

Corey J. Miller, 22, with addresses of Beacon Hill Road in Pembroke, and Alton Woods Drive in Concord, received a summons at 5:55 p.m. on March 10, 2015, for fraudulent use of a credit card and receiving stolen property after incidents on Dec. 28, 2014. At 10:13 p.m. on April 13, he was arrested and charged with felony armed robbery and simple assault.

Karissa J. Tucci, 19, previously of Monroe Avenue in Allenstown but now homeless in Concord, was arrested at 5:44 p.m. on April 1, on felony fraudulent use of a credit card and three counts of receiving stolen property. At 9:45 p.m. on April 13, she was arrested on a felony conspiracy to commit charge.

The knife robbery incident

Officers were called to Beacon Street at around 9 p.m. for a report of a robbery with a man pulling a knife on another man, according to arrest reports and court affidavits.

Miller was allegedly identified as the man with the knife by the victim and dispatch informed officers that he had reportedly run toward the roundabout on North State Street.

Officers found the victim who was holding his head and side and appeared to be in pain. The officer noticed that the side of his head was red but he did not appeared to have been cut by a knife. The man stated that Tucci had allegedly asked him to come and pick her up at one section of Beacon Street and he agreed to. Before he arrived, she said she was at another house, so he pulled up along the sidewalk of that home. Tucci reportedly got into his car and he went to leave but she stated, “No, wait.”

The victim stopped, thinking maybe she forgot something. Miller then reportedly opened the driver’s side door, told him to get out, and ordered him to “run his pockets.” The victim refused to get out and Miller allegedly began pummeling him in the side of the head. The victim tried to put the car in gear to leave “but Tucci had removed the key from the ignition,” the court affidavit alleged.

While he was getting beaten up, another man, referred to as “Frenchy,” was called over to assist in the alleged robbery.

“Let’s do this,” the victim alleged Miller stated. “You know who I am … I’ll stick you … I’m not afraid to do it.”

The victim was then pulled out of the car and Miller allegedly threatened to stab him again while holding something in his hand that looked like a knife. When ordered to hand over his wallet, the victim did. Miller allegedly emptied out the cash – about $150 – and yelled at the victim, “That’s it?”

Miller allegedly grabbed the victim’s new cellphone and they left. The victim then got up and began to chase after them. The victim said he knew it was Miller because they both attended Pembroke Academy but were a year apart.

Just then, a Checkmate Pizza delivery driver drove by and the victim asked her to call police.

The victim said he was totally shocked by the attack. He said he only knew Tucci for a few days and thought she really liked him, according to the report.

The officer later spoke to the pizza delivery driver who reportedly told the officer that she didn’t want to get involved. She did give a description of a young man and woman fleeing the scene.

Other officers later caught up with both Miller and Tucci and they were arrested. The court affidavit alleged that Miller was in possession of a Smith and Wesson knife and the victim’s cellphone.

They were both held without bail.

Credit card case

According to a court affidavit, an officer went to speak to a woman about a past tense fraud on Jan. 13, 2015. She stated that one of her family members, a janitor, had received a health savings account to pay for his medical bills and assisted him in paying a bill on Dec. 28, 2014. She left the card in her vehicle and let her adopted teenage son use the vehicle because he wanted to use up his gift cards.

The teen had the car for about three or four hours.

The next day, she noticed that the health savings account card was missing. She spoke to her son about it but he denied seeing or taking the card. She told the teen that if he made fraudulent charges, she would report it to the police. She then reported the card stolen and received a new one for the family member.

About two weeks later, she received a bank statement that showed more than $4,949 worth of charges on the card from numerous stores including Walmart, Target, XSmoke Vape Smart, Rue 21, Piercing Pagoda, Toys R Us, Best Buy, and Lids.

Police began investigating the sales and started at Walmart where the store pulled up video from the purchases made. A man and a woman were in the video, according to the report. The officer later shared some of the screenshots of the video security and a detective identified the woman as Tucci. The man, he said, might be Miller, but he wasn’t sure.

The officer then pulled up Tucci’s Facebook site and found “several pictures for comparison so we were able to identify her as the female suspect using the credit card,” the officer alleged. “I also found pictures of what appeared to be pictures of a brand new Samsung Galaxy tablet and of the male suspect who we believed to be Corey Miller.”

The officer compared the photos with Miller’s previous mugshots and they appeared to be a match.

The officer wanted more proof so he met with Tucci’s mother and stepfather, and showed them pictures. They positively identified both Tucci and Miller, according to the affidavit.

“(The stepfather) commented on one of the pictures saying, ‘looks like they are at a store and probably stealing something,’” the report stated.

Miller was in jail at the time on other an unrelated offense and was given the summons on March 10. Tucci was arrested on April 1.

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.