Derry Man Charged with Domestic Second-Degree Assault

MERRIMACK, NH - Police arrested a man last month on assault charges against another person in town on Feb. 12.

Joshua Lepage, 24, of Tsiennto Road in Derry, was arrested on Feb. 17, 2016, for domestic violence-simple assault and domestic violence-second-degree assault.

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According to police, on Feb. 14, they opened an investigation into a domestic assault that took place in town two days before. The victim alleged that Lepage assaulted the victim “multiple times” in Merrimack on Feb. 12.

After looking into the incidents, an arrest warrant was issued for Lepage for the assault charges. He turned himself in to police on Feb. 17, was released on $5,000 personal recognizance bail, and was arraigned later that day, according to an arrest report.

During the past few years, Lepage had been arrested a number of time including for criminal trespass in December 2012 in Londonderry, when he was a resident of Windham, simple assault in Derry in October 2014, and in January 2011, when in Windham, for conduct after an accident and operating without a valid license.