Early Morning Fights Lead To Woman, Teens Arrested In Concord

CONCORD, NH — It was a busy early morning for Concord police after they were sent to two reports of fights downtown just after midnight.

Police were first sent to Storrs Street near the Granite Group plumbing supply company for a report of at least five people arguing with a few appearing to be intoxicated. One of the people involved, according to the caller, had a handgun. Later, when checking one of the participants, dispatch said the man was known to carry an unloaded Glock as a sidearm.

A few minutes later, dispatch received a 911 call concerning a report of a large gathering of people outside WOW Fried Chicken and Subs on Pleasant Street Extension, about three blocks away, yelling and screaming at each other. A witness stated she saw at least one person get pushed.

The calls were not connected in nature.

More police arrived and as they did, some of the participants outside of WOW began to scatter in two directions, running toward the Capital Plaza Shopping Center and others running toward North Main Street.

According to the first responding officer, the incident started when a DJ became upset about a missing wire. Then was a verbal argument occurred and the owner of the restaurant kicked a large party of customers out.

“When they saw (police) lights,” she told dispatch, “they all started running.”

Officers confirmed people running from both directions of Pleasant Street Extension. No one, she added later, confirmed they saw anyone hit anyone else.

Another officer told dispatch they would be moving everyone along.

Meanwhile, on Storrs Street, an officer was running checks on the people there and also ran a serial number check on a Glock, which was OK’d.

Around 12:30 a.m., an officer still working the WOW location requested a second unit to come back due to an intoxicated person he needed assistance with. At the same time, backup was called to the Storrs Street situation.

Not long after, a third unit was requested back to Pleasant Street Extension for “crowd control,” since a number of people were not leaving the area after being requested to. Audible screaming and yelling could be heard from the police radios.

About a minute later, an officer reported taking at least one person was into personal custody due to intoxication.

Officers also requested New Hampshire State Police be called to the scene due to several people refusing to disperse from the area. Dispatch said Bow police were offering to come into the city to assist and the officer said, “We’ll take Bow … we appreciate it.”

Later, the officer told dispatch the woman who they were attempting to PC was being charged with simple assault on a police officer, resisting arrest or detention, and disorderly conduct. During the course of running a check on the woman, she claimed she was 15 and from Massachusetts.

“Does anybody down there know who her parents are?,” a watch commander at headquarters asked police at the scene.

Another person they ran a check on claimed she was a 10-year-old girl also out of Massachusetts and related to the first girl, according to the officer.

A watch commander then requested the officers get as much information about the two girls so they could backtrack and find their parents.

“That’s the most important thing at this point,” he said.

A female officer said two girls were going to be charged with unlawful possession of alcohol. Three women were being taken into custody altogether.

Another officer also requested dispatch call a cab for a man from Newburyport, MA, who needed transportation and said he had the funds to get there.

Later on in the call, officers discovered the 15-year-old girl was actually 21 and was accused of giving officers an incorrect birth year.

Dispatch told officers to tell the man looking for the cab ride there would be one there soon.

“It’s going to be a little pricey,” the dispatcher stated wryly.

Later, an officer asked for a background check on the third girl and it turned out she was a 16-year-old from Manchester. The second girl also gave a false name and age and was not from Massachusetts; she was 17 and lived in Manchester.

After 1 a.m., the area was cleared of people and the two girls and the woman were questioned. A female officer was also requested back to police headquarters to handle searches of all three.

No other information was available from the Storrs Street incident.

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