Posts by Pat Grossmith
The Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Plan for a mixed-use community within walking distance to public transport in the South Elm Street area was the focus Wednesday of a panel discussion.
A 43-year-old man, who was ordered to stay away from a female family member, is accused of kidnapping her, threatening to kill her and kicking a police dog when officers tried to arrest him.
Five days before Manchester Assistant Fire Chief Brendan Burns was found dead on a hiking trail in Pelham, a Londonderry woman filed a report alleging he had sexually assaulted her on Sept. 22 in her home.
At the time he was reported missing, Manchester Assistant Fire Chief Brendan Burns was being investigated by Londonderry police for a reported sexual assault, according to Fire Chief Daniel Goonan.
The following information was provided by Hillsborough County Superior Court North as part of the September Grand Jury indictments, which are part of the public record.
A city man who police say is a known gang member and connected to two recent Manchester shootings was arraigned Tuesday on a felony charge of being in possession of more than an ounce of marijuana.
Assistant Hillsborough County Attorney Mandy Werner asked Judge Amy Messer to order Geoff Brown held in preventive detention saying he acted as a vigilante and that “vigilante justice is extremely dangerous.” She said the people in the park had the right to be there and it was not Brown’s role to remove them.
A local man, accused of leaving an 18-month-old child in a shower of scalding water, severely burning him, was ordered held without bail even though the toddler’s parents told a judge that severely hot water randomly pours out their showerhead.
Prosecutors dropped a felony charge against Jeremy Roye Winslow, the man whose girlfriend was shot and killed last year in an incident near Club Manchvegas.
Defense Attorney Kim Kossick, in arguing that her client be released on personal recognizance bail, questioned whether the state had probable cause to even arrest her client. She said the “complaining witness” initially picked out the photograph of another man saying she was 100 percent sure it was him before settling on Polanco Diaz’s photo saying she was 85 percent certain he assaulted her.