January 24
At about 4:10 a.m., Officer Almedin Dzelic was sent to a State Street address for a reported assault. According to his report, dispatch told him that a man had called in and said he'd been punched in the face and that somebody had broken his phone.
Officers Dzelic and Dick Scott went to the building, Dzelic wrote, and while they were in the hallway they heard loud male and female voices coming from upstairs. “As we started walking up the stairs a male subject came out of Apartment 2 and stated that he was the one that called and that he was punched in the face,” Dzelic wrote.
The man invited the officers into the apartment and said his girlfriend punched him in the face and broke his cell phone, Dzelic wrote. The man said the fight started because he'd been helping a female neighbor extricate a ferret from a wall; his neighbor said that if they broke the wall to get the ferret, she'd have it fixed and pay for it, the man told Dzelic. The man said he helped her break the wall and retrieve the ferret, Dzelic wrote, and then gave the woman his cell phone number so she could call him when she was going to have the wall fixed.
The man said later on that night, his girlfriend, April Louise McJuary, 31, of Concord, came home drunk and started arguing with him about why he gave his cell phone number to a neighbor.
During the argument, the man told Dzelic, McJuary agreed to go to a hotel because of their fight, but once there, she began calling and asking to come back.
The man told her she could come back if she didn't cause any problems, Dzelic wrote. But when she came back, the man told Dzelic, they immediately began to argue again, and that during the argument McJuary started coming at him so he ran around the table and the couch, but she continued to come after him, Dzelic wrote.
When he stopped, he told Dzelic, McJuary punched him in the face with a closed fist.
The man said that he ran into the bathroom to look at his eye and heard McJuary saying, “I'll snap your phone.” He then heard a crack and found McJuary in the bedroom; she threw out a piece of his cell phone.
Dzelic then talked to McJuary, who was very loud and uncooperative, he wrote. Dzelic asked her what had happened, he wrote, and she said she didn't know. Dzelic asked her how her boyfriend had gotten the big red welt above his left eye, and she said, “I don't know, he hit himself in the face.” Dzelic then asked McJuary how her boyfriend's phone was broken, and she said she didn't know. She told Dzelic she had been sleeping just before the officers arrived and didn't know anything.
“I advised McJuary that she was not sleeping because both Officer Scott and I heard her yelling while we were still in the hallway and she stated, 'No, it was not me,' ” Dzelic wrote.
Once at the police department, Dzelic wrote, he learned that McJuary had been arrested on Jan. 19 for simple assault and criminal mischief. Her bail condition had been to not break any federal, state or local laws. She was charged with simple assault, criminal mischief and default or breach or bail conditions. Her bail was set at $5,000 cash, and she was taken to the county jail.
