[NH] For the Record: Unrepentant, unapologetic Gubitosi

Judge Kathleen McGuire:
"What you did is a slap in the face to law enforcement. You have shown no remorse. And you have given no apology for what you have done."

Round and round it goes.
Where it stops,
nobody knows.

EXCERPTS FROM 2002 THRU 2008:

BRISTOL OFFICIALS MUM ON STALKING ALLEGATIONS
New Hampshire Union Leader
October 19, 2002
Carol Carter Union Leader
Patrolman Steve Gubitosi, hired by the Bristol Police Department in July, has apparently been placed on leave or restricted duty pending disposition of a restraining order sought by a former girlfriend... What is known is that [MR], in a statement filed Oct. 10 with Belknap County Sheriff's Department, said she had a relationship with Gubitosi from June 2000 until last April. Since ending the relationship, [MR] said Gubitosi has demonstrated escalating violence toward her. She said Gubitosi threatened her life, said he would commit suicide, cut phone lines, killed her cat, stole phone bills from her mailbox, drove down her street without headlights, smashed her car windows, let air out of her tires, spray-painted a profane word on her office, "keyed" her car, harassed her mother and friends with phone calls, and spray-painted the car of her "significant other, [BK]" in a Manchester apartment complex parking lot. [MR], 42, said she also suspects Gubitosi of jamming her apartment buzzer with toothpicks on two occasions and said he repeatedly calls between midnight and 5 a.m., using a disguised voice to leave "threatening and vulgar" messages. "An escalating pattern is developing. It is my feeling that Steve is unstable and capable of causing physical harm, perhaps as he did to my cat and to my apartment," said [MR] in her statement. On Oct. 11, [MR] obtained a temporary restraining order from Manchester District Court... [Police Chief Barry Wingate] Wingate said he is aware of the restraining order, but that Gubitosi hasn't been convicted of any crime. "There are domestic violence and stalking cases every day in New Hampshire, but the newspaper doesn't published every one of them"... William McChesney, Bristol's town administrator, said he was unaware of the issue... Police Commissioner Carroll Brown also declined comment. "I have nothing to say about it. I haven't discussed this with Barry (Wingate)"... Pembroke Police Chief Wayne Cheney said Gubitosi worked for his department for 18 years, from 1983 until Nov. 1, 2001, when he resigned. Cheney declined comment about Gubitosi's career of almost two decades...

RESTRAINING ORDER HEARING CONTINUED
NH News Notes
New Hampshire Union Leader
November 1, 2002
A hearing for a permanent restraining order against a Bristol police officer by his former girlfriend was continued yesterday... [MR] obtained a temporary restraining order against Gubitosi on Oct. 11... In her request for it, she said that she and Gubitosi had had a relationship until last April. Since then, she said he had allegedly threatened her life and his, cut telephone lines, stolen telephone bills from her mailbox, smashed her car windows, wrote an obscene word in spray-paint at her office, "keyed" her car, and made harassing telephone calls to her mother and her friends...

BRISTOL POLICE OFFICER RESIGNS
NH News Notes
New Hampshire Sunday News
November 10, 2002
Steve Gubitosi, the Bristol police officer under a temporary restraining order since October, resigned last week. In a Nov. 4 letter to Police Chief Barry Wingate, Gubitosi apologized "for the embarrassment to the community and police department" but called the allegations fictitious...

FORMER POLICE OFFICER ACCUSED OF STALKING, HARASSING GIRLFRIEND
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 13, 2002
A former Bristol and Pembroke police officer was in court yesterday for a hearing on a request by his former girlfriend for a permanent restraining order against him. [MR] said yesterday in Manchester District Court that former boyfriend Steve Gubitosi won't accept that their relationship ended last April... Refreshing her memory from time to time by consulting a journal logging the events, [MR] testified that she began the breakup with a certified letter to Gubitosi and underscored it in several face-to-face meetings... She acknowledged that she continued to have occasional face-to-face contact with him, saying she is "overly empathetic"... Frequently, during his testimony, Gubitosi swiveled his chair back and forth, stopping and staring at [MR], smiling as he spoke...

EX-POLICE OFFICER DENIES HARASSMENT
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 31, 2002
Former Pembroke and Bristol police officer Steve Gubitosi returned to the witness chair last week and continued to deny allegations that he harassed or threatened his former girlfriend... The former police officer did not sit through a tape of telephone calls to [MR]. Instead, Gubitosi left the courtroom as the tape began to play and periodically re-entered and left the room as Judge John Emery, [MR], her attorney, Nicholas Brodich, and defense lawyer William Egge followed transcripts of the calls. "This is emotionally distressing (to Gubitosi)," Egge told the judge... He [Gubitosi] denied threatening suicide... He said [MR] misinterpreted his calls and that she shouldn't have reported the alleged suicide threat to a Concord police officer because it jeopardized his new job. When [MR]'s attorney asked why Gubitosi continued to call [MR] after being told by the Concord officer to cease all contact, Gubitosi said he had no choice but to try and get [MR] to go back to the Concord police to "straighten out" the situation...

EX-POLICE OFFICER CHARGED WITH STALKING
New Hampshire Union Leader
January 23, 2003
Former Pembroke and Bristol police officer Steve Gubitosi, 41, was arrested yesterday on a stalking charge involving a former girlfriend. Gubitosi turned himself in to the Belknap County Sheriff's Department after being notified of the arrest warrant... During two and a half days of testimony in December and January, [MR] alleged her vehicle and residence were vandalized and she, her mother and friends had received hundreds of harassing telephone calls...

TRIAL OF EX-OFFICER UNDER WAY
His former girlfriend filed stalking charges
Concord Monitor
Rebecca Tsaros Dickson
October 28, 2003
LACONIA - Trial began yesterday for a former police officer accused of stalking his ex-girlfriend. The allegation is just one in a series of eight harassment and stalking charges that are spread over two superior courts. Prosecutors say that Steve Gubitosi, 42, of 201 Center Hill Road, Epsom, who was a police officer for 18 years, had shown a pattern of harassing [MR], 43, of Manchester... Gubitosi worked for the Pembroke Police Department for 18 years, 12 of those years as a sergeant. He resigned in November 2001. Eight months later, he was hired as a patrolman at the Bristol Police Department. He worked there just four months, resigning in November 2002, when [MR]'s allegations were brought forward...

EX-OFFICER CONVICTED OF STALKING
Former policeman faces further charges
Concord Monitor
Rebecca Tsaros Dickson
October 31, 2003
A Belknap County Superior Court jury has found a former police officer guilty of stalking his ex-girlfriend... Detective Sgt. Chris Cost of the Belknap County Sheriff's Department led the investigation. "This is a definite victory for all stalking victims," he said. "Gubitosi abused his authority as a law enforcement official"...

FORMER POLICE OFFICER ACCUSED OF SEX ASSAULT
Gubitosi already convicted of stalking
Concord Monitor
December 16, 2003
Rebecca Tsaros Dickson
A former police officer convicted of stalking his ex-girlfriend was arrested last Friday on sexual assault charges in Manchester. Steve Gubitosi... spent the weekend at the Belknap County House of Corrections after the Belknap County Superior Court revoked his bail from the stalking charges. Gubitosi had been free on $5,000 cash or corporate surety since his conviction Oct. 30. He was charged last Friday with sexual assault, a Class A misdemeanor, and was released on $1,000 cash bail...

EX-POLICE OFFICER, OUT ON BAIL, FACES ASSAULT CHARGES
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 17, 2003
An ex-policeman, recently convicted in Belknap County for stalking a former girlfriend, was arrested in Manchester for sexually assaulting a woman at the Queen City Inn... Police went to the Queen City Inn Dec. 8 after a man staying there reported he had heard shouting and a woman screaming in the room next to his. He told police the door to the other room was open and when he walked by he saw a naked man pushing a woman...

STALKER MAY FACE MORE CHARGES
Concord Monitor
Rebecca Tsaros Dickson
March 3, 2005
A former police officer convicted of stalking his former girlfriend may face additional charges of harassing and stalking the same victim. Yesterday, the state Supreme Court said prosecutors were not guilty of misconduct or bad faith when they obtained a search warrant for the suspect's cell phone records, even though they had been suppressed as evidence. That means that Steven Gubitosi, 43, of 201 Center Hill Road, Epsom, could be tried in Merrimack County Superior Court on four counts of harassment and three counts of stalking... In Merrimack County, court papers allege Gubitosi once phoned the woman more than 50 times in four hours. In at least one message, he allegedly threatened her and called her a "whore." In yesterday's ruling, the state's highest court said the cell phone records should not have been suppressed as evidence and that prosecutors should not have been sanctioned for seeking a warrant through a lower court.

COURT: NO WARRANT REQUIRED FOR RECORD OF CELL PHONE DIALING - RULING HANDED DOWN IN STALKING CASE
Concord Monitor
Sarah Liebowitz
Saturday, October 29, 2005
The state Supreme Court upheld a Belknap County Superior Court conviction of a former police officer for stalking his ex-girlfriend yesterday... In the majority opinion, justice James Duggan argued that "the defendant does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in information concerning his cellular telephone calls that was recorded for billing purposes and retained by US Cellular in the ordinary course of its business"... Prosecutors used Gubitosi 's cell phone records to show that he called Zack's Lakeside Restaurant in Tilton the night of Sept. 19, 2002... But the release of Gubitosi 's cell phone records without a warrant is grounds for a new trial... Gubitosi was convicted of stalking in Belknap Superior Court in December 2003, and sentenced to one year in county jail, with six months suspended. That same day, Gubitosi was charged with sexual assault in Manchester. That case never came to trial. Last month, Gubitosi was convicted of four counts of stalking and harassment in Merrimack Superior Court...

BOUNTY HUNTER HELPS NAB EX-COP - MAN TO SERVE SIX MONTHS FOR STALKING
Concord Monitor
Sarah Liebowitz
Wednesday, November 2, 2005
A former police officer convicted of stalking his ex-girlfriend surrendered to the Belknap County Sheriff's office late yesterday afternoon. After a career that included working as a private investigator, Steven Gubitosi was delivered to the office by a bounty hunter... Prior to his incarceration, Gubitosi worked for a private investigation firm, Cost said, and held an investigator's license...

EX- OFFICER FREE AFTER CHALLENGE TO WARRANT
New Hampshire Union Leader
Matthew Call
Thursday, November 3, 2005
A former police officer hunted and snared by a fellow bail bondsman to face a six-month sentence for a stalking conviction is again out on the street after filing a motion to void the search warrant on which he was captured... Justices last Friday upheld Gubitosi's conviction out of Belknap County superior court for stalking an ex-girlfriend and mandated an immediate arrest to fulfill the sentence...

EX-COP GETS ONE YEAR IN JAIL
Concord Monitor
Annmarie Timmins
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
The former Pembroke policeman convicted of stalking his ex-girlfriend got an additional year in jail yesterday, after a judge doubled the time a prosecutor requested. Steven Gubitosi , 44, is already serving a six-month sentence in Belknap County jail for stalking the woman. Yesterday, he was in Merrimack County Superior Court to answer additional stalking charges. Prosecutor Wayne Coull of the Belknap County Attorney's office asked Judge Kathleen McGuire to give Gubitosi six months in jail plus 18 additional months suspended for the Merrimack County charges. Coull said the threat of the 18 months would hopefully keep Gubitosi from continuing to harass and threaten his ex-girlfriend after he served his time... [Judge Kathleen] McGuire rejected Coull's proposed sentence and instead gave Gubitosi a year in a jail plus a year of suspended time. She said he should have known better, especially given his training as a police officer . "What you did is a slap in the face to law enforcement,"McGuire said. "You have shown no remorse. And you have given no apology for what you have done."

OCTOBER 2008 SUPREME COURT AT-A-GLANCE
NH Bar News
By: Compiled by Beth A. Deragon
November 14, 2008
...State of New Hampshire v. Steven Gubitosi; 2006-283 - Whether the prosecutor was not appointed properly pursuant to RSA 7:33 or RSA 661:9, III, entitling the defendant to a new trial. Whether RSA 644:4, I (b) was unconstitutionally over broad... [LINK]

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