Westford, Massachusetts, Man Accused Of Threatening Patrons With A Handgun At 2 New Hampshire Restaurants

MANCHESTER, NH — A man from Massachusetts is facing several felony charges after being accused of threatening employees at two Queen City restaurants Monday night.

Around 9 p.m., Manchester police were called to the Texas Roadhouse on South Willow Street for a report of a customer “threatening staff with a handgun and a steak knife, and physically assaulting an employee,” Lt. Patrick Houghton of the Manchester Police Department said. The customer was later identified as Mark Kidman, 57, of Westford, MA. Staffers disarmed Kidman, he said, but when police arrived and attempted to arrest him, he was accused of “actively resisting.”

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Kidman was taken into custody and charged with simple assault, resisting arrest, and five felony counts of criminal threatening with a firearm.

After being arrested, police were alerted to a separate, unrelated incident at the Caribbean Market on Maple Street that occurred earlier in the evening.

“It was reported that a customer, later identified as Mr Kidman, had been arguing with other customers, and threatening employees with a handgun,” Houghton said. “Mr. Kidman was already in custody stemming from the Texas Roadhouse case, and an additional charge of felony criminal threatening with a firearm was added relating to the Caribbean Market incident.”

Kidman was held on preventative detention and will be arraigned in Manchester District Court at a later date.

Police are asking anyone with information about either incident to contact the department at 603-668-8711 or via Crimeline at 603-624-4040 or online at ManchesterCrimeline.org.

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