February 9
The damaged toilet paper dispenser
Michael Plaisted, 27, of Concord was arrested on Feb. 9 on a charge of criminal mischief.
According to Officer Steven Martel’s report, he was dispatched to the Circle K on Loudon Road at about 7:48 p.m. because a man who arrived on foot, later identified as Plaisted, had became “unruly and “angry” toward the store’s employees after they refused him a refund.
Dispatch then told Martel that Plaisted had been in the Circle K bathroom for 10 minutes and it sounded like he was “throwing things around and getting agitated.”
When Martel arrived, he spoke with Plaisted outside. Martel wrote that Plaisted said he had bought a six-pack of Michelob Lights but when he got home he realized that two of the bottles were empty. He said he then went back to the store and demanded either more beer or a refund. When the employees explained it was against company policy to refund the beer, Plaisted refused to leave and became angry, Martel wrote. Plaisted said while he waited for the police to arrive, he went into the bathroom. When he pulled on the toilet paper dispenser it fell off of the wall, he said.
Martel wrote that he could smell alcohol on Plaisted. Plaisted said that he’d had a beer earlier while walking to Circle K from Pizza Hut.
When Martel went into the bathroom, he said he noticed that the toilet paper dispenser was on the floor and the drywall screws were pulled out.
Two Circle K employees confirmed that they refused Plaisted an exchange. One employee wrote in her statement that she heard a “ huge noise” from the men’s bathroom while Plaisted was in there, and when he came out the dispenser looked as if it had been “torn off the wall.”
Martel arrested Plaisted and brought him to the police station where his bail was set at $1,000. Plaisted is due in court on March 11.
February 14
Man asks, ‘Do you have a problem, guy?’
Bruce Antis, 31, of Deering was arrested on Feb. 14 on a charge of disorderly conduct.
According to the police report, at approximately 9:31 p.m. Officers Steven Martel and Timothy King were dispatched to Beijing and Tokyo on South Main Street for a report of a “hostile patron attempting to start fights” in the restaurant’s downstairs bar.
Antis had walked into the bar and within five minutes had picked a fight with a man who was watching TV above his head, according to a witness’s statement. Antis said, “Do you have a problem, guy? Don’t you have anything else to stare at?” and kept trying to egg him on, the report said. Antis then tried to pick a fight with a second man the witness said. “The entire time the man [Antis] was rude, called everyone names and tried to get anyone angry that he could,” she wrote.
Martel wrote in his report that when he and King arrived they saw Antis swearing and telling a waitress to “shut the f— up.”
As Martel approached Antis, he said he noticed that he smelled strongly of alcohol and saw a “bulge” on his waistband. When Martel attempted to see what it was, the report says Antis got even more aggressive by grabbing Martel’s hand. Martel wrote that he then pulled up Antis’s shirt and realized that it was just a belt. However, Antis – still angry – “got into” Martel’s face and continued to yell, according to the report.
Trying to calm him down, Martel says he asked him to go outside. Antis refused and “pushed his weight toward me as if he wanted to challenge me,” Martel wrote.
After several attempts to get Antis to leave, Martel told him he was under arrest. According to the report, there was a brief struggle between the men, but Martel and King were eventually able to cuff Antis and place him in the police cruiser.
At the police station, Antis was “surly and uncooperative” so bail commissioner Dale St. Laurent met them in the garage, the report says.
Antis’s bail was set at $1,000 cash, and he was taken directly to the Merrimack County House of Corrections due to his “aggressiveness and intoxication level,” Martel wrote. On the way to jail, Martel continued, Antis threw up in Martel’s car, on himself and on the ground at the jail’s sally port.
He was due in court on Feb. 16.
