March 26
Changing story
At approximately 1:39 a.m., Officers Joshua Levasseur and Joseph Chaput were dispatched to 85 Manchester St. for the report of an ongoing domestic. According to Levasseur’s report, dispatch informed the officers that that a female caller was on the phone and sounded extremely upset and then hung up.
“Office Chaput and I arrived shortly there after,” Levasseur wrote, “and once outside the apartment we could hear a male having a conversation with an emotionally upset female. We could not catch all of the conversation but the male had told the female that she had to change her story. We then knocked and made contact with the male.”
According to the report, the male, identified as John Grogan, invited the officers in to talk. Levasseur wrote that Grogan and the female were the only people in the apartment.
Levasseur writes, “Officer Chaput then began conversing with Grogan while I spoke to the woman in the hallway. She was extremely shaken up and stood in a manner that was hugging herself from her forearms. . . . . She stated that her and her husband got into a disagreement and she wanted to leave the apartment to get help from the neighbors but he would not let her. He restrained her, and grabbed her forearms. Upon examination of her forearm I saw swelling and red/purple bruising that was consistent to what she had described he had done. She told me that before we arrived he tried to get her to put on a long sleeve shirt in order to hide the marks. She said that he said he was afraid of going to jail.”
In the report, Levasseur writes that the woman also reported being thrown to the ground and choked, but at the time there were no visible injuries. Also, Levasseur wrote, there was a “slight language barrier which appeared to have become worse in her emotional state. She had a difficult time telling me what had happened in chronological order.” Levasseur continued, “She stated that he also told her that she did not belong in the United States, that she should go back to Brazil,” and called her names.
Levasseur writes, “I then spoke to Grogan who stated that it had just been a verbal argument because the two of them have been stressed. When asked about the markings on the woman’s arms, he stated that was due to her trying to open a table. He appeared to be very nervous and stated that this had happened before, at the Concord Hospital, when he was arrested for grabbing her. When asked why he told her to change her story, he said that she was talking on the phone with someone and she told them that she was in fear of her life. He was trying to have her change it so that he would not get in trouble.”
According to the report, Levasseur placed Grogan under arrest for domestic simple assault and domestic criminal restraint.
During processing, he writes, he spoke to Officer Chaput who told him that during the incident, Grogan threw his cell phone into the wall and cracked the drywall. The charge of domestic criminal mischief was added, Levasseur writes.
Cash bail was set at $1,000 and Grogan was due to appear in court on April 26.
March 24
Crime line tip
Officer Joseph Chaput was advised of a Concord Crime Line tip that a truck would be driving on Sheep Davis Road from the area of Gilford to Nortax, a John Deere dealer in Pembroke. According to the report, the truck had a New Hampshire registration and was a late model Ford, two tone blue and white with a truck cap, and the person driving the truck would be Michael Keefe.
Chaput writes, “At approximately 6:40 a.m., I was sitting in the entrance to Outdoor World on Sheep Davis Road when a dark blue Ford pickup with a white truck cap approached me traveling south on Sheep Davis Road. When the truck was close enough, I was able to read the front license plate. I also observed a male driving the truck.” According to the report, Chaput pulled behind the truck and stopped it between Regional and Chenelle Drive.
“I made contact with the operator,” Chaput writes. “The driver handed me a Canadian (Saskatchewan) driver’s license identifying him as Michael P. Keefe.”
Chaput writes, “I asked Keefe where he was going; he said to work. When I asked Keefe where he worked, he said ‘I’m working down the road at a job site.’ When I asked him to be more specific, he hesitated and said down the road, near John Deere. I asked him to give me a street address; he said he didn’t know.”
According to the report, Officer Chaput asked Keefe about his residency and Canadian driver’s license.
Chaput writes, “He said he was in the state visiting his mother and he had been here for approximately two to three months. He said his mother is the person listed on the registration. When I asked where she lived, he told me he was staying at her house in Gilford but she was in Florida.”
According to the report, Officer Chaput went back to the patrol car to run the license. Dispatch was not able to get any information to come back on the license, he wrote.
“After a brief conversation about his license,” Chaput wrote, “I asked Keefe if he worked at Nortax; he said ‘part time.’ I told Keefe I knew he was lying. I told him I felt his license was suspended and that he worked at Nortax fulltime. I told him that a tip had come in through the Crime Line describing his vehicle and license plate, indicating he was driving while suspended. Keefe said, ‘The gig’s up, you know I’m lying.’ ”
Chaput writes, “I asked Keefe if he was suspended in the state of N.H.; he said yes. I asked him how he got the Canadian driver’s license. He said an attorney got it for him because he had dual citizenship. I asked him if he was a citizen of Canada, he said no. I asked him if the driver’s license was real, he said no. . . . . I asked Keefe for his birth date. When the dispatcher ran his name with that date of birth, Keefe, did come back with a revoked license in the state of N.H.”
According to the report, Keefe was arrested for operating after revocation and license prohibition. Chaput writes, “Because I was not sure that Keefe was still being truthful about his name and date of birth, I requested a photo from the Gilford Police Department. Gilford had arrested Keefe for DWI. When Gilford ran Keefe using the DOB, they were able to provide a booking photo of him. When I received the photo I was able to verify it was the same man.”
Keefe was bailed on $700 personal recognizance. He was due in court on April 23.
