Woman Arrested On 12 Assault, 9 Domestic Violence, And Other Charges After Incident In Concord’s North End

CONCORD, NH — A woman from Maine was arrested and held without bail last month, accused of assault, domestic violence, mischief, and resisting charges, at a home on Union Street.

Around 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 20, police were sent to a report of a possible domestic disturbance, where at least one witness stated they heard “yelling and banging,” a child crying, and a man saying, “She just hit me with a lamp.” When the first officer arrived, they met with a man in his mid-20s and examined the apartment. The officer reported a television knocked off its stand, and with a broken screen, a lamp on the floor with the lampshade and lightbulb detached, and a baby gate knocked over. The officer claimed the house was “in disarray.” A broken lamp on a nightstand had scattered pieces on the floor and on the bed, they wrote.

The officer spoke with Kayleigh King, 23, of Union Street at the time of the arrest, but now of Main Street in Biddeford, Maine, and said she was “crying and looked disheveled.” She accused the man of slapping her in the face, but the officer did not see any abnormal redness, the report said.

“I attempted to obtain what happened from Kayleigh but she was unable to provide me any information other than calling (the man) as ‘pedophile’,” the officer wrote.

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The reporting officer spoke with the man, and he accused King of assaulting him with the lamp, hitting him approximately eight times, on the arms and head. He used his arms to block the strikes, he said. The victim accused her of breaking two lamps during the attack, and the television. When he tried to leave, King grabbed him by his hoodie, an affidavit said. The victim also accused King of striking a child, a boy, with her hand.

Other officers arrived and, “based on the facts and circumstances,” King was told she was under arrest, the report said. The reporting officer accused her of beginning to “freak out, by yelling and flailing her arms.” When told to stop resisting, she was accused of pulling her hands away and kicking. The reporting officer claimed in the report she continued to attempt to pull away and pulled her arms from the officer to prevent being handcuffed.

Eventually, she was cuffed and taken to a police cruiser, where she continued to kick at the officers, striking one officer in the arm and kicking the reporting officer in the jaw, “causing my head to turn to the right,” an affidavit said.

The victim estimated the value of the lamps at about $120 and the television at around $200, a report said.

During transport, the arresting officer accused King of causing damage to the police cruiser, cracking the plexiglass partition.

King was charged with nine counts of domestic violence-simple assault, 12 counts of simple assault, four counts of criminal mischief, and a single count of resisting arrest or detention, and taken to the county jail.

Judge Ryan Guptill found probable cause to move forward with the case on Feb. 23.

King was arraigned via video, pleaded not guilty to the charges, posted $500 in cash bail, and signed an extradition waiver on Feb. 23. A probable cause hearing was held on March 4. On March 11, probable cause was not found for two of the simple assault counts.

King is due back in court on April 28 for trial on 16 charges: Seven simple assault counts, five domestic violence-simple assault counts, three criminal mischief charges, and resisting arrest or detention.

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