Manchester Woman Faces Stalking Charges

A Manchester woman arrested in April is facing more charges after allegedly attempting to speak with her husband from jail, in violation of her bail conditions.

Tabitha Elizabeth Lopez, 29, of Manchester, was arrested at 4:15 p.m. on June 11, and charged with two counts of attempted stalking and two counts of attempted default or breach of bail conditions.

According to an affidavit from Concord District Court, on April 7, the day after Lopez was arrested for allegedly assaulting her husband, Lopez attempted to make contact with her husband twice while at the Merrimack County House of Corrections. The officer was meeting with Lopez’s husband on "an unrelated matter" when the home phone rang twice. The husband picked up the first call and received an automated recording asking him to accept the call from jail and requesting credit card information. When the husband handed the phone to the officer, the recording had stopped. But a couple of minutes later, the phone rang again, with the same recording.

“(The husband) stated to me that the only person that would be calling him from jail is his wife,” the officer wrote. “(The husband) stated that Tabitha is not allowed to have contact with him.”

The previous day, Lopez was arrested on a simple assault charge, allegedly striking her husband's face with her hands.

A condition of Lopez’s bail was to not contact him, the officer stated.

On April 7, Lopez was arrested again and this time, refused bail and was brought to jail. Her previous bail conditions were not amended, according to the officer. 

The officer later went to the prison and received two CDs featuring surveillance video of Lopez using the phone during a 10-minute period on the date and time in question. Her husband later ID’d her from a picture taken at the prison, and Lopez was charged.

Officers picked up Lopez in Manchester where she was arrested on a warrant, according to a Concord Police arrest report. She was held on $5,000 cash bail and transported to the Merrimack County House of Corrections.

During transport, officers alleged that Lopez was yelling at them, stating she was going to assault anyone in jail that came near her.

“She made several verbal abusive comments towards (us),” the officer alleged, and attempted to slip out of the handcuffs a number of times.

Lopez was arraigned via video on June 12.