Loudon Man Arrested On Stalking, 6 Assault Charges In Penacook
CONCORD, NH — A man from Loudon is facing seven charges after an incident last month on Village Street in Penacook.
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Around 9 p.m. on Aug. 20, police were sent to a report of a domestic incident. A woman accused James Bosco, 47, of Lovering Avenue in Loudon, of spitting on her and taking her glasses. The woman told an officer he left the home and walked toward Coral Street.
The dispatcher told the officer that Bosco had an active stalking warrant.
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After taking the report, the officer canvassed the area and found Bosco in the area of Washington and Charles streets, an affidavit said. After confirming it was him, and reporting he was cooperative, Bosco offered, “I just had to get out of there,” a report said.
The officer asked him to walk through everything that happened. Bosco said he went to the home and ran into two women, the officer wrote. An argument ensued between him and one of the women, including them getting in each other’s faces, and then the woman punched him, the affidavit stated. He then took the woman’s glasses and threw them on the ground, the report stated. Bosco then walked away because he did not want things to escalate, the officer said.
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While the reporting officer was interviewing Bosco, other officers spoke to the women and learned about the spitting allegation. When asked about the spitting, he was accused of admitting he spat at the woman first.
The two women were interviewed and one claimed Bosco reached around the second woman and hit the first woman in the face, calling her glasses to fall off, an affidavit said. There was also an allegation he chest-bumped the first woman, the report stated. The officers with the women reported seeing a minor injury to the chin of one of the women.
Bosco was determined to be the “primary aggressor” and was arrested, an affidavit said.
To speak with an advocate, call the statewide domestic violence hotline at 1-866-644-3574 or the statewide sexual assault hotline at 1-800-277-5570, or to find the crisis center nearest you, visit the New Hampshire Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence website, linked here.
At police headquarters, the officer noted a protective order between the pair after Bosco was released on bail. The report stated that the bail conditions required him to stay away from the woman. Bosco was arrested in Concord on April 21.
According to superior court records, Bosco also has active stalking, witness tampering, and breach of bail charges out of Loudon from mid-July. He is due in Merrimack County Superior Court on Dec. 17 for a dispositional conference hearing.
In 2006, in Concord, he was charged with felony acts prohibited, transporting alcoholic beverages, a charge that was dropped later, and 19 counts of forgery. Bosco pleaded guilty to the drug and forgery charges in October 2008.
Bosco pleaded guilty to violating probation in April 2010.
Bosco was accused of violating a court order and found guilty of the charge in May.
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