Nashua State Representative: I’m Being Spoofed

NASHUA, NH — A Nashua Democrat arrested this week accused of making false 911 calls is denying the allegations.

State Rep. Stacie Laughton (D-Nashua) was arrested Tuesday on seven counts of penalty for false information, all misdemeanors. Nashua police accused Laughton of misuse of the state's 911 texting system across nearly three months, earlier this year. Each time, police said, they showed up to Laughton’s apartment on Elm Street and there was no emergency.

On Wednesday, Capt. Matthew DiFava of the department’s Uniform Field Operations Bureau, said the investigation was ongoing and more charges were expected.

However, on Thursday, Laughton, denied the allegations and said, in an email to Patch, “This is a situation of spoofing.” The representative, who also serves Ward 4 as a selectman, said, “We’re trying to get to the bottom of it.”

Laughton was also critical of media coverage of her arrest calling it “very biased” and that her past criminal history, credit card fraud and falsifying physical evidence convictions in 2008 and an accusation of a bomb threat phoned in to a local hospital in February 2015, painted her as a bad person — even as a monster.

“I’ve come a long way I have a good heart,” she said. “I love serving my community … I love volunteering in my community to help others in need because I have been somebody in need in the past … I have been homeless and now I am (the) host ... I have needed help with food and now I can help with food ... so it’s really sad to see people paint such a negative picture of me and not get the other side.”

DiFava this week said anyone with information about the case is being asked to contact the Nashua Police Department at 603-589-1665.

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