Two Arrested on Rumford Street After Drug Deal Goes Bad

Two Perley Street residents were arrested on Rumford Street after police were called to the address for a report of a drug deal gone bad.

Robert Anthony Michaud, 53, of Concord, was arrested at 10 p.m. on Dec. 1, and charged with resisting arrest or detention. Also arrested was Ruth Ann Warren, 26, of Concord, who was charged with resisting arrest or detention and default or breach of bail conditions.

According to arrest reports and court documents, officers were called to Rumford Street for a report of a disturbance in the downstairs apartment “over a drug deal that had gone bad.”

The officers arrived and saw a man walking toward a parked minivan with its engine running. A woman was reportedly sitting in the driver’s seat and a man in the passenger seat.

The officers approached the van while the man opened the side door and stepped out of the vehicle.

“I noticed, as the male was stepping out of the vehicle, a transparent plastic bag containing an unknown while substance fall out of the man’s hand and hit the ground directly underneath the front passenger door,” the officer alleged. “I suspected the transparent plastic bag contained an illegal drug of some sort.”

The man, Michaud, was ordered to turn around and after “a brief struggle,” they were able to cuff him.

Another officer reported that Michaud “tensed his muscles and tried to pull away” from the officers while they were trying to cuff him.

Warren, however, had reportedly exited the van and was walking away from the scene. The officer ordered her to stop but she allegedly ignored the request and kept walking away.

A sergeant and another officer later located her on the north side of Rumford Street and she was taken into custody.

Both were held without bail.

Warren was also arrested on Nov. 20, and charged with theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, from Walmart on Loudon Road on Nov. 9, and a warrant out of Goffstown Circuit Court for failure to appear in a civil case, with $500 cash bail required. Chichester Police arrested her on the warrant and they brought her to Concord to be processed. She couldn’t come up with the bail so she was held.

Warren, according to Woburn Patch, was arrested in 2012 for sexual conduct for a fee.

She was also arrested in 2012 on a warrant.

According to reports on Patch, Michaud was arrested in 2012 on two counts of sale of controlled drugs and driving while intoxicated.

Editor’s note: The following post was derived from information supplied by the Concord Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction. Click this link to find out how to get a name removed from a New Hampshire Patch arrest report.