Homeless Woman, Blocking A Capital Plaza Stairway Downtown, Spits On Concord Cop: Report

CONCORD, NH — A homeless woman now located in Concord was arrested earlier this month on assault and trespass charges after being accused of refusing to leave a business area downtown and spitting on a police officer.

At around 8 a.m. on Jan. 15, officers were sent to the Capital Plaza on an unwanted guest call. An employee for Foxfire Management, an owner of the North Main Street property, reported a homeless woman on the ground along the side of the New Hampshire Doughnut Company. The woman, later identified as Cassie L. Marcoux, 42, was accused of blocking access to a staircase to the building’s boilers and being verbally aggressive to people in the area. The employee outlined the private property lines of the plaza to the officers, which was checked and confirmed using a GIS program, an affidavit said.

One of the officers completed a trespass form from the employee and spoke with Marcoux, who they knew “based on previous encounters.”

The officers confirmed Marcoux was on the ground blocking access to the boilers, the report said. One of the officers prepared the trespass paperwork, asked her to leave, and she lit a cigarette, the reporting officer wrote. The officer explained the boundaries of the business where she was being trespassed and accused Marcoux of being “verbally aggressive” and shouting “random nonsense and statements.”

When Marcoux was told she needed to leave, she was accused of continuing to scream, “shouting that we had killed someone and that she had seen (the) officer being shot by myself somewhere.” The officer told her several times that she needed to leave, but she refused, saying, “I am not leaving,” the affidavit stated.

After being warned she would be arrested if she did not leave the area, “Cassie stood up from the spot she had been laying and spit on me,” the affidavit stated. Her spit landed on his face and got into their eye and mouth, the report said.

The officer attempted to take Marcoux into custody, and she was accused of turning away and flicking the lit cigarette into the officer’s face.

The officer wrote Marcoux said she would not cooperate with the booking process and she was taken straight to the Merrimack County Jail.

According to court officials, Marcoux has faced criminal charges 10 times since 2018, including eight times last year alone. Some of those charges include assault, trespass, theft, resisting, mischief, public urination and defecation, and warrants.

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