Police station video leads to DHHS parole officer's arrest -Milford, NH

Police station video leads to parole officer's arrest - Tuesday, Mar. 8, 2011
By NANCY BEAN FOSTER
Union Leader Correspondent

MILFORD – A state juvenile parole officer has been arrested and charged with three felonies after video surveillance cameras recorded him hitting his estranged wife with his car in the parking lot of the Milford Police Station, then driving off.
The couple, who are separated, had arranged to meet at the police station Saturday afternoon. According to court documents, Kimberly Neumann tried to hand some bills to Todd Neumann, 39, as he was sitting in his 2007 Nissan Maxima. He threw the bills on the ground and she attempted to place them under the passenger's side windshield wiper. Court records say Todd Neumann then swung the car around, hitting his estranged wife and knocking her to the ground and coming "dangerously close" to a 4-year-old child in the parking lot.
Kimberly Neumann went into the police station and reported the incident. A review of the video surveillance of the parking lot corroborated her account, according to court records.
Todd Neumann, who lives in Amherst, later returned to the police station and turned himself in. The probation officer for the Department of Health and Human Services Division of Juvenile Justice was arrested and charged with one class A felony, reckless conduct; two class B felonies, second-degree assault and conduct after an accident; and a class A misdemeanor, endangering the welfare of a child.
DHHS officials would not comment on the case.
Judge Martha Crocker granted Kimberly Neumann a restraining order against her estranged husband.
Neumann was released on $10,000 cash/surety bail. His arraignment was scheduled for Monday at Milford District Court, but prosecutor Michael McCall recommended to Judge Martha Crocker that the trial be moved to another court.
"In light of his position as a juvenile parole and probation officer and the frequency with which he visits this court, I felt this may not be appropriate for this case to be heard in Milford," McCall said.
The judge agreed to transfer the case; it is not yet known where it will be heard, McCall said.