Crime & Safety
MD Man Arrested On Assault, Dissemination Of Private Sexual Images, Other NH Charges
Umar Mansaray of Gaithersburg, Maryland, was accused of assaulting, threatening a Nashua woman, and refusing to let her go to the hospital.
NASHUA, NH — A man from Maryland was arrested on 13 charges, including six felonies, and held on preventative detention after being accused of assaulting a woman Saturday.
Police were sent to a residence in the city for a report of a domestic assault. They met with a woman who claimed her boyfriend, Umar Mansaray, 34, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, had “physically assaulted her several times throughout the night (and) would not let her get treatment at a hospital,” Sgt. John Cinelli, the public information officer and communications division supervisor of the Nashua Police Department, said.
The victim also accused Mansaray of threatening to harm her and members of her family.
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The woman was taken to the hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. Police also arrested Mansaray on four felony counts of second-degree assault-domestic violence.
Cinelli said detectives from the special investigation division worked the case, which led to more charges against Mansaray, including felony criminal restraint-domestic violence, felony nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images, obstructing the report of a crime or injury, violation of privacy, domestic violence-criminal threatening, and four counts domestic violence-simple assault. He was held on preventative detention and was scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday.
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Nashua police requested anyone with more information about the case to contact the Crime Line at 603-589-1665.
To speak with an advocate, call the statewide domestic violence hotline at 1-866-644-3574 or the statewide sexual assault hotline at 1-800-277-5570, or to find the crisis center nearest you, visit the New Hampshire Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence website, linked here.
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