Public urination
On Nov. 16 about 5:45 p.m., Sgt. John Thomas was traveling west on School Street and was waved down by a woman, who told him she had just witnessed a man urinate in the Durgin garage. She told Thomas the man had a gray beard and was with another man in a green Kia.
On the third floor of the garage, Thomas wrote he observed the Kia parked close to the elevator. The garage was busy with pedestrians and vehicles leaving, he wrote. Thomas approached the vehicle and identified the driver as 61-year-old Philip Cilley of Concord. “To the left of the vehicle, I could clearly see a wet pattern on the wall of the garage. It appeared that someone did, in fact, urinate on the wall or pour something on it. Cilley admitted to peeing on the wall, Thomas wrote.
“I asked why he would do that since he was in such a high public area. He responded, ‘Well, I had to go!’ ” the report said.
The back of the car, Thomas wrote, was so cluttered he couldn’t see the seat. Thomas asked Cilley if he and his friend were living out of his car. “He advised me that they were. He stated that he had been homeless for a long time.”
Cilley was issued a summons for public urination.
Simple assault
On Nov. 17 about 1;30 p.m., the police responded to McDonald’s on South Main Street for a report of a domestic disturbance. Upon arriving, Officer Katherine Marcos met with 28-year-old Phillipi Costa of Quincy, Mass., who told her he’d had a fight with his boyfriend following a dentist appointment in Concord.
According to Costa, the fight got so bad that he asked his boyfriend to let him out of the car, which he did. About 30 minutes later, Costa said he called his boyfriend and asked him to return with his car. A short while later, Costa’s boyfriend returned with the vehicle. Costa sat in the driver’s seat and told his boyfriend he was leaving. While the driver’s door was shut, Costa said, his boyfriend attempted to reach over Costa through the window to grab his cell phone charger, the report said. “Costa then told me that (the boyfriend) bit him in the center of the chest, and this caused Costa to grab (the boyfriend) by the hair to get him off of him. . .”
Costa told the police that he began to drive off but had to stop at a traffic light at the intersection of South Main Street. That’s when he saw his boyfriend “running towards the vehicle yelling at him not to leave and kicked the vehicle twice on the right front and rear door,” Marcos wrote. Costa called the police and waited at McDonald’s.
The boyfriend and another witness gave the police a different version of events, according to the report. The boyfriend told the police that when he reached into the car to grab the cell phone charger, Costa began hitting him in the head with his hand “and was pulling him by the hair into (Costa’s) chest” – that’s why he bit Costa, report said. The other witness told the police she observed the boyfriend’s feet come off the pavement as he reached into the car to get the phone charger, the report said.
Costa was arrested on simple assault charges and bailed on $2,000 personal recognizance.
He is due in court Dec. 20.
Disorderly conduct
On Nov. 21 about 5:30 p.m., officers James Fallon and Almedin Dzelic were dispatched to Pleasant Street for a report of an intoxicated man.
At the scene, the police found 44-year-old Concord resident Paul Rankins, who was shoeless, swaying back and forth, slurring his words and believed he was in Pelham, according to Fallon’s report.
The officers spoke to the complainant, who told the police that she and her 7-year-old daughter were stopped at the intersection of Pine and Warren streets when Rankins approached the passenger side of her car. Rankins grabbed the door handle and attempted to open the locked door, the report said. “When the door would not open, Rankins began pounding on the window,” while yelling obscenities at the woman and her daughter, the report said.
The woman told the police she was afraid to drive off for fear of running him over, the report said. Then, she told the police, Rankins “suddenly fell backwards, giving her the opportunity to drive off.”
The woman told the police the experience traumatized her daughter, who “undid her seatbelt and jumped into her mother’s lap crying and yelling back at Rankins ‘Please leave us alone!’ ” the report said.
Rankins, who, according to the police, was on probation, was arrested for disorderly conduct and transported to the Merrimack County Department of Corrections.
