Man Faces Charges After Altercations with Neighbors, Girlfriend

According to Concord Police report, Michael Roy Allen MacMaster has had a number of run-ins with the law allegedly involving domestic disputes and disorderly conduct.

Back on Nov. 27, 2012, officers were called to the Penacook Village Laundromat on Village Street for a disturbance. Dispatch reportedly told the officers that a man and a woman were hitting each other. Both later left in separate vehicles, traveling southbound, according to dispatch.

While driving on Village Street, a woman reportedly flagged down the officer while operating a red Ford. She was “visibly upset and crying,” according to the officer.

The officer told the woman to pull over so they could speak and after approaching her car and speaking with her, he wrote that he saw a green vehicle drive by with a man, later identified as MacMaster and another man.

The woman allegedly told the officer that she had a verbal argument with MacMaster on the phone about his relationship with another woman. While talking with him, he allegedly pulled up to her car, which was parked outside the Laundromat. He alleged began banging on her car window when she wouldn’t open the window. She reportedly told the officer that she thought MacMaster was going to break the window so she exited the vehicle.

They allegedly continued to argue and she left the area and he ran after her. Later, she returned to her vehicle and he allegedly opened the door and tried to grab her phone and purse that were on the passenger side of the vehicle. She stated that “MacMaster laid on top of her with his body and pushed her face against the back of the driver seat,” the officer wrote.

She then allegedly bit him on the hand. MacMaster allegedly grabbed “the right side of her neck with his hand and squeezed her neck,” according to the report. The other man in the other vehicle began to yell at her and she managed to start her vehicle and leave the area, reportedly striking the other vehicle as she fled.

While talking to the officer, MacMaster allegedly called to speak to the woman. He allegedly called again and the woman handed the phone to the officer who reportedly spoke to MacMaster. The officer stated that he told MacMaster he needed to speak with him about the incident and wrote that MacMaster was “going to Northwood.”

MacMaster was later taken into custody at his home at the Morningstar Apartments on Loudon Road and charged with simple assault (personal weapons) charge. MacMaster was released on $2,000 personal recognizance bail and was arraigned on Dec. 31, 2012.

On Dec. 28, MacMaster was arrested again on a disorderly conduct charge.

According to an arrest report, officers were called to a building fire in the Morningstar Apartments Loudon Road at around 3:15 p.m. where a fight was reportedly going on.

Officers saw “thick black smoke and flames” coming out of the window on the basement apartment. The officers checked the area but did not find a disturbance. The officers separated with one handling traffic and the other checking the area.

About 15 minutes later, one of the officers reportedly heard a young boy yelling at an apartment dweller. Another man, later identified as MacMaster, approached the apartment dweller and “stood face to face” with him as both began shouting at each other about the fire.

The officer stepped between them and separated them. One man stepped away but MacMaster allegedly “continued to step toward” the other man “despite my order to step back,” the officer wrote.

MacMaster was later arrested.

The officer later reported that while in the back of the police cruiser, “MacMaster apologized to me for his behavior and said he lost his temper because he believed that (the other man) started the fire in the apartment under the one where MacMaster’s son lives.”

He was later released on $750 personal recognizance bail and was arraigned on Jan. 28.

A few days later, MacMaster was arrested again, this time on mischief (vandalism) and default or breach of bail conditions charges.

According to an arrest report, multiple officers and Concord Fire and Rescue teams were sent to Loudon Road for a report of a woman who had overdosed on pills and was sitting in her vehicle.

One of the officers told the reporting officers that there were alleged domestic issues between the Pembroke woman and MacMaster.

The woman alleged that MacMaster “grabbed her in the apartment and put his hands around her neck.” EMTs transported the woman to Concord Hospital.

At the hospital, the woman allegedly said she didn’t want to talk about the situation. She also allegedly denied that MacMaster had been abusive. She allegedly said the two had been arguing and that she went to leave and he allegedly stood in the door keeping her from leaving. She alleged that he later picked up her cell phone and slammed it on a table causing the screen to crack. She reported that the night before, she arrived at MacMaster’s apartment with their son. Later, she went to Walgreens, returned to the apartment and went to sleep in a chair. She allegedly woke up frantic not knowing where she was.

The two allegedly began to argue about where their child was sleeping and other issues. MacMaster, she said, later felt bad for breaking her phone and gave her his phone. He later allegedly tried to keep her from leaving the apartment and threatened to call police if she left.

Another officer spoke with MacMaster. He alleged that he found the woman in her car the evening before “hunched over” and brought her up to his apartment. MacMaster allegedly said that he was concerned about her screaming and crying, alleging that she said she was “going to finish the job,” meaning commit suicide. MacMaster allegedly confirmed that he tried to hold onto her phone and offered his when it broke but she wouldn’t take it. “He called 911 out of concern for her welfare,” the report stated.

The officer looked at the phone and saw that it was working but was cracked. MacMaster was then arrested. He was held on $500 bail.