Pennsylvania Man Arrested On Burglary, Second-Degree Assault, Obstruction, Other Charges

CONCORD, NH — A man from Pennsylvania faces several charges after being accused of burglarizing an apartment at the Royal Gardens complex and assaulting a woman late last month.

Police were sent to an apartment on Oct. 22 for a report of a domestic incident. An officer spoke with a woman who was bleeding from her left eye. The officer asked where the assailant was and the woman pointed to a back door. The officer exited the apartment and spoke to three men in a parking lot, who pointed toward a fence in the area of Burns Avenue. The officer checked the area, found no one, and returned to the apartment.

The officer spoke with two sisters of the woman and interacted with the officer, including one who acted as an interpreter. They were upstairs talking when Diodonne Bagamba, who was connected to the victim, began attacking her, an affidavit said. The woman accused him of grabbing her, pinning her to the floor, and punching her in the face. When another woman tried to call 911, Bagamba “took the phone from her,” an affidavit said.

One of the women grabbed him while yelling to the other to “go get help,” the report said. She then also left the apartment to get help, the report said.

Bagamba was accused of choking the woman to the point where she could not breathe while yelling at her. She accused him of standing up and then kicking her in the back. Bagamba grabbed the two phones, ran down the stairs, and fled the area, the report said.

The officer confirmed the woman had marks from the attack, including a cut lip and a bleeding left eye. The officer did not see marks from the strangulation or kick accusations.

The woman said Bagamba had not been in the Concord area for more than six months and had only seen family a couple of times since then, the report stated. She said he was either living in Pennsylvania or Nashua, the officer wrote.

One of the phones was a new Samsung phone valued at $2,000.

The officer spoke with one of the other women who described the attack. She claimed Bagamba had a knife in his back pocket that fell out while he was on top of the victim beating her, the affidavit said.

“He then grabbed it and put it back into this pocket,” the report stated.

She said her Samsung phone was valued at around $200.

The officer also examined damage in the apartment and saw “small items all over the floor” but limited “signs of a struggle.” When asked how Bagamba got into the apartment, the victim said she did not know since she always had locked doors and windows, the affidavit said.

A warrant was issued against Bagamba, 44, of Eyon Street in Scranton, PA, for burglary, theft by unauthorized taking-$1,501-plus, second-degree assault, and domestic violence-assault charges, all felonies, as well as criminal trespass, simple assault, domestic violence-simple assault, theft by unauthorized taking-less than $1,000, domestic violence-obstruct report of a crime or injury, and two obstruct report of a crime or injury charges as well as a license required violation. He was arrested around 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 22.

Bagamba was arraigned and a bail hearing was held on Oct. 24 in Merrimack County Superior Court. A protective order and an interpreter request form were also issued on Oct. 26. A dispositional conference will be held on Dec. 12.

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