WINCHESTER — A
local police officer has been arrested and charged with criminal
threatening with a deadly weapon in connection with an August incident
when he allegedly pointed a loaded firearm at someone.
Kevin W. Martel,
25, is expected to be arraigned in December on the felony charge,
Cheshire County Attorney D. Chris McLaughlin said Monday.
He said he did not have further details about the incident.
McLaughlin said his office
learned of the situation last week, and that the incident happened in
Winchester. He didn’t know if Martel was on duty at the time.
As of this morning, nothing had been filed in 8th Circuit Court District Division in Keene or Cheshire County Superior Court.
N.H. State Police, who are
investigating the incident, referred all questions about the case to
McLaughlin’s office Monday. The Winchester Police Department also
referred questions about the case to McLaughlin’s office.
McLaughlin referred questions
about Martel’s employment status to the Winchester Police Department.
Winchester Police referred those question to the Winchester Town Hall.
An official at Winchester Town
Hall said her office didn’t have any information about Martel’s
employment status or whether he’d been placed on administrative leave.
Martel has been a member of the
Winchester Police Department for about a year, based on annual town
reports. He could not be reached for comment.
McLaughlin said he expects the case to be prosecuted in Cheshire County, but it likely will not be handled by his office.
Meghan Foley can be reached at 352-1234, extension 1436, or mfoley@keenesentinel.com. Follow her on Twitter @MFoleyKS.
12 comments:
Kevin will either get fired and take his uniform with him, or get promoted, its Winchester. Wonder why this is all a mystery, think someone might be lying?
Number one ATF rule as a cop. Never, never pull your gun unless you intend to use it. If you do pull your gun and it goes off place your hidden unmarked (serial numbers filed off) in his hands or a shive.
Plato.....This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Maybe if the people in power in this town don't know what's going on, we can get some help for them from the national news organization's. Police stupidity is a hot news item now days. Good luck explaining the towns policies if they show up.
I thought I had heard that this involved a student at the school, can anyone confirm or deny this?
Linder, I got to say.
"Plato.....This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are."
OMG, this has been the most accurate and truest post I may have ever read on this blog. I for one believe our officials are reflecting the same characteristics as the citizens. Inbred Ignorance, leading the inbred ignorance, is a perfect explanation.
I think a more accurate quote to best describe this town, the people who live here and those elected to govern would be the infamous one by none other than the Tom Hanks character: Forest Gump
"Stupid is as stupid does"
Really kind of sums it all up don't ya think?
I was going to say that Einstein had an appropriate response, but then learned that he may not have been the one to come up with it (http://www.news.hypercrit.net/2012/11/13/einstein-on-misattribution-i-probably-didnt-say-that/). Still, it certainly seems to fit: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
I would think there would be some repercussion for keeping this a secret from the select board, unless the department heads are now running the town.
Were there not several other comments posted before the 8 noted above, or was I dreaming that? Where did they go and why?
All of the comments sent in have been posted and none have been removed. If a comment had been removed you would see a blank space with a message that the comment had been removed by an administrator. Evidently you were dreaming.
Thanks Informer. Guess I must have been dreaming. As I recall, they were pretty good comments on subject.
Another 3 day work week for the chosen few, be in the town hall parking lot tomorrow at 7 am and see how many employees are late to work.
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