Former Concord Resident Assaulted, Threatened to Kill Witness After Crash: Report

DUNBARTON, NH — A former Concord resident was arrested by Manchester Police this morning on charges connected to mid-September hit-and-run drunk driving case on Twist Hill Road in Dunbarton. Mohamed Ouahman, 40, of Moultonborough, was arrested on Dec. 22, 2016, simple assault, obstructing the report of a crime or injury, and criminal threatening.

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Dunbarton Police issued a warrant against Ouahman after officers from that community and Goffstown were sent to Twist Hill Road for a report of a hit-and-run crash involving a mailbox on Sept. 14, 2016. The property owner reportedly followed the vehicle into Goffstown and then back into Dunbarton where the vehicle crashed again, according to a report.

Laura Fortin – a homeless woman from Concord with a history of criminal activity including assault, domestic violence, breach of bail, theft, and possession of prescription drugs – was allegedly driving the vehicle, was intoxicated, and taken into custody. She allegedly assaulted an officer at the scene, too, police noted. Her trial is set to start in May 2017, according to Sgt. Chris Remillard of the Dunbarton Police.

During the course of the investigation, police learned that Ouahman had allegedly “pushed and threatened to kill an individual who was trying to call 911 to report the hit and run,” according to Remillard.

“Ouahman is also alleged to have swatted at the victim’s phone in an attempt to prevent him from dialing 911,” Remillard alleged. “Ouahman was a passenger in the vehicle involved in the hit and run crash.”

Ouahman was arrested this morning and placed on a 72-hour hold by the New Hampshire Department of Corrections since he is currently out on parole for kidnapping and robbery. He was held on $15,000 cash bail.

Ouahman, who used to live in Loudon Road in Concord, was arrested in April on criminal threatening and simple assault charges after an alleged incident in an apartment on Loudon Road in March. At the time of the arrest, according to police, he also had a warrant for nonappearance in Hillsborough County Superior Court from April 15, 2016, on a possession of a controlled drug charge.

According to leagle.com, Ouahman was convicted of kidnapping and robbery in 2007. He attempted to appeal the verdict due to a claim that the state used peremptory challenges to strike male jurors from the case.