Child welfare check
On Nov. 4 about 4:20 p.m., detectives Marc McGonagle and Sean Ford went to a Concord Gardens apartment to conduct a welfare check on two children.
According to McGonagle’s report, DCYF had received a report that two children, ages 4 and 6, were not being cared for properly by their parents. The report said both parents were intravenous drug users and that the children were sometimes left alone with no adult supervision. The report also said the kids were not being fed properly and were dirty, the police said.
When the police arrived, no one answered the door. The police thought no one was home so they started to leave. While they were pulling out of the parking lot, they saw two faces looking out an upstairs window to the apartment. “The faces were obviously two female children,” he wrote.
The police tried knocking again, but no one answered. After an hour, McGonagle saw a female, later identified as Christina Moore, 27, of Concord, approach the apartment. Moore told the police that she was the mother and that she left the apartment for 10 minutes to go to the store, McGonagle wrote.
McGonagle explained the nature of their visit and asked if they could check her apartment, the report said. Moore complied.
While in the living room, McGonagle wrote that he saw a bong on the floor next to the couch.
“I also observed the apartment to be in complete disarray with cigarette butts all over the floor, dirty clothing and soiled plates piled up everywhere and sharp instruments like knives and scissors within reach of the children.”
McGonagle said Moore’s speech and mannerisms were slow and that she would abruptly become extremely excited.
Moore was taken into custody. At the station, the police found a bottle of pills in Moore’s purse, which were identified as a mix of prescription and controlled drugs. Included in the mix were Efidac 24, Clonazepam, Carisoprodol and Valium, the report said.
“During the booking process, I noticed that Christina had extensive ‘track’ marks on both arms indicative of intravenous drug use,” McGonagle wrote.
The children were placed into protective custody and later released to the custody of their paternal grandparents.
Moore was charged with three counts of possession of controlled drugs, two counts of possession of prescription drugs without a prescription and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
Bail was set for $35,000.
Domestic disturbance
On Nov. 4, officers William Brouillet and Scott Fanjoy were dispatched to a Great Falls Drive residence for a report of domestic disturbance.
A woman who called the police told dispatch that her boyfriend, Alexander McFarlin, 19, of Concord, punched her in the face, causing a fat bloody lip and broke her finger.
Fanjoy found McFarlin at a Washington Street residence and asked him what happened.
McFarlin told Fanjoy that he woke up that morning to his girlfriend screaming at him for talking to another girl. McFarlin said that his girlfriend then threw his phone down beside him on the bed and that they got into a verbal argument before she walked out, Fanjoy wrote.
“I asked McFarlin how she got the fat bloody lip, red mark on her chest and the broken finger. McFarlin stated that he didn’t know and she must have done it to herself,” Fanjoy wrote.
McFarlin told Fanjoy that his girlfriend had hurt herself in the past and that maybe the red mark on her chest came from having sex the night before, the report said.
McFarlin was arrested for domestic related simple assault and was held on $4,000 cash.
