January 25
Middle of the road
At about 1:30 a.m., Officer Ryan Howe was heading south on South Main Street.
According to Howe's report, he saw a man wearing dark clothing walking in the middle of the road on the double yellow lines and had to swerve to the right to avoid hitting him.
“As I passed this subject, I observed him in my rearview mirror still in the middle of the roadway,” he wrote.
Howe then stopped and got out, he wrote, and saw that the man was now walking on the left side of the road heading south.
“I called this subject over, and I asked him what he was doing,” Howe wrote.
“He then yelled at me telling me that I almost hit him. I told him that he was walking in the middle of the road. He then yelled, 'No I wasn't!' While speaking to this subject, I could smell an odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from his breath. He also appeared to be intoxicated. The subject also became increasingly agitated.”
Howe placed the man, later identified as Christian Ernest Economides, 23, of Concord, into handcuffs, he wrote, and told him he was under arrest for disorderly conduct.
Howe did a pat-down, he wrote, and Economides became more and more agitated and swore at Howe.
Howe brought Economides to his cruiser and told him to get into the back seat, he wrote, but Economides refused, saying he just wanted to talk to Howe. Howe told Economides he could talk to him once he got into the cruiser, he wrote, but Economides refused.
Howe told Economides that if he didn't get into the cruiser, he would charge him with resisting arrest, he wrote, and Economides then sat in the cruiser but refused to put his legs inside. Howe told him to put his legs inside, but Economides refused, Howe wrote.
Economides began to yell and swear at Howe, he wrote, and Howe had to lift up Economides's legs and place them inside the cruiser.
Howe then asked Economides to turn his head to the left while he buckled him in, he wrote, and Economides refused, so Howe had to turn Economides's head to the side.
While en route to the police station, Howe wrote, Economides was verbally abusive, saying, “I bet you're the b**** that everyone picked on in high school,” and telling Howe that he never made the varsity team.
Economides also called Howe other unprintable names, Howe wrote.
When Howe arrived at the police station, he wrote, he had the watch commander, Lt. John Zbehlik, meet him in the garage. When Howe opened the rear door, he wrote, Economides refused to get out, so Howe physically removed him and took him to the booking cell.
Economides continued to yell and swear during the booking process, Howe wrote. “At one point Economides stated, 'You know, if I wasn't such an a**hole, I would have been a cop,' ” Howe wrote.
Economides was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
Economides's bail was set at $1,500 personal recognizance when sober, and Economides was taken to the county jail. He is due in court on Feb. 19.
January 31
Two Brothers
At 12:45 a.m., Officer Craig Levesque was sent to the Concord Grille on Main Street for a reported assault.
When Levesque arrived, he wrote, he was told that someone had been hit in the head and was inside bleeding, and that the suspect who had hit him had left. Levesque talked to the victim, who had a deep cut above his left eye, he wrote.
The victim told him that he and his brother, Nicholas J. Goodwin, 25, of Pembroke, had been arguing abut a girl and that Nicholas punched him in the face and ran out.
The Concord Fire Department checked the victim's injury, Levesque wrote, but the victim said that he didn't want to go to the hospital with the fire department, and that he had had four beers and wanted to drive himself.
“I told him he could not drive after drinking and now had a head injury,” Levesque wrote. Levesque took the man to the hospital, he wrote, and other officers searched the area for Nicholas Goodwin, but didn't find him.
At the hospital, the man spoke to Nicholas on the phone, Levesque wrote.
“After a long conversation,” Levesque wrote, “(the victim) stated that Nicholas may be at their mother's house in Pembroke.”
At 2:30 a.m., Levesque wrote, he and Officer Joshua Levasseur met with the Pembroke police and went to the mother's residence to look for Nicholas.
Nicholas answered the door and let the officers in, Levesque wrote, and admitted that he'd hit his brother and said he was very sorry.
Levesque placed Nicholas under arrest for domestic simple assault. At the station, Nicholas told the officers he was on parole and did not want bail to be set, Howe wrote.
Nicholas was taken to the county jail and was due in court Feb. 2.
