NASHUA, N.H. — The Nashua Police Department has announced the arrest of 57-year-old Christopher Gassett of Newport for sexual assault charges.
This comes after on February 28, when Nashua police took a report from a 28-year-old woman who said that she had been sexually assaulted by her friend’s boyfriend back in 2024 while at a Nashua residence.
Detectives, a part of a Special Investigations Unit, were assigned to look into the matter, and upon investigation, applied for an arrest warrant on for Gassett, which was granted.
Garrett was arrested and charged with a total of two counts of Aggravated Felonious Sexual Assault, a Special Felony, and two counts of Simple Assault, a class A Misdemeanor, all stemming from the same incident.
Garrett was held without bail until his arraignment on March 28.
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