Dover Man Charged with Assaulting Portsmouth Police Officer Held on High Bail

A Dover man charged with assaulting a Portsmouth Police officer on Tuesday and his alleged accomplice were ordered held on high cash bail in Hampton District Court this morning.

"There's $5,000, I mean there's absolutely no way that's going to get paid," said Isaiah Mayo, 17, of 1 Abbey Lane in Dover during a video arraignment from the Rockingham County Jail. "There's not a single person I know with $5,000 who is going to come down and pick me up."

Mayo is facing a felony second-degree assault charge along with a Class A misdemeanor of resisting arrest. He and Windell Cervantes-Conley, 21, also of Dover, are both facing a receiving stolen property charge after they allegedly stole a 2007 Chevrolet pick-up truck.

Portsmouth Police Prosecutor David Colby told Hampton District Court Judge Mark Weaver that a Portsmouth Police officer was in the process of detaining both suspects after police determined they were operating a stolen vehicle on 23 Wedgewood Road.

Colby said it was then that Mayo "punched" the police officer in the face with a closed fist which caused the officer to suffer a fractured bone and required stitches.

"Given the nature of the crime, We feel he is dangerous to society," Colby said.

Weaver agreed and accepted Colby's recommendation that bail be set at $5,000 cash or bond with $10,000 personal recognizance.

Weaver also set Cervantes-Conley's bail at $1,000 cash and $2,500 personal recognizance.

Colby recommended that bail be maintained for Cervantes-Conley because he has two prior shoplifting convictions out of Manchester and Rochester district courts. Cervantes-Conley disagreed.

"I think that is a little too much. I have never missed a  ourt date and I have never put my hands on an officer," he told the judge.

Both men are being held at the Rockingham County Jail in Brentwood and are scheduled to have a probable cause hearing in Portsmouth District Court on July 14 at 10:30 a.m.