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©BARRINGTON - Following a weeklong manhunt, lawmen found and arrested a suspect in last Thursday's domestic violence incident in Rochester police.
Michael W. Lovely, 33, of 239 Washington St., was picked up at a residence on Long Shore Drive in Barrington.
The arrest was coordinated with Rochester and Barrington police and the US Marshals Fugitive Task Force.
Lovely was arrested without incident around 3 p.m. He refused bail, was taken to Strafford County Jail and will be arraigned at Superior Court today.
The incident unfolded a little before 3 p.m. when Rochester Police responded to a residence at 239 Washington St. for a reported domestic disturbance. Upon arrival they removed an adult female and children from the residence.
According to narratives pulled from last Thursday's police log, Rochester dispatch received a 911 call apparently from one of the children at 2:56 p.m. that said "his father is assaulting his mother."
The caller asked police to hurry before the call was disconnected.
Police log narrative then indicated that the male has a gun and was in the kitchen. Another caller, likely the mother, then says all the kids are outside waiting, before that signal is lost, too.
Upon arrival at the scene officers set up a perimeter and the Strafford County Regional Tactical Operations Unit was activated and responded to the scene. Washington Street from Chesley Hill Road to Estes Road was closed for several hours.
A search was performed, however Lovely got away.
The handgun referred to in the police log was thought to be a bb gun, which police never recovered.
The female victim was treated at Frisbie Memorial Hospital with what were described as nonlife-threatening injuries. None of the children were hurt in the incident.
Lovely has been charged with second degree assault, simple assault, criminal mischief and criminal threatening, all Class B felonies that can draw up to a seven-year prison stay apiece.
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