Man said to have threatened wife with a knife

LACONIA — A North Main Street man remains behind bars as of yesterday after allegedly threatening to harm his wife with a knife during an argument the two had early Wednesday morning.

Police affidavits obtained from the 4th Circuit Court, Laconia Division said officers responded to Jason Samson's home at 1156 North Main Street at 3:58 a.m. regarding a domestic disturbance.

When police entered the apartment, they noted that Samson had his hands in his sweatshirt pockets. He complied with a police request to put his hands in the air and told them he had a fixed-knife blade in one of his pockets.

An officer removed the knife while a second one went into a different room to speak with the alleged victim, who told the officer she and Samson had been arguing for hours about what he perceived as her having an affair.

She said he got "so worked up" that at one point he stabbed the wooden dining room table with the knife and allegedly ordered her to send her alleged lover a text message so he would come to the apartment and Samson would allegedly stab him.

At one point, she told police she went to go to the bedroom to get away from him and he grabbed her by the arm so hard that he left a bruise. She told police she was afraid of Samson and feared him "to be capable of inflicting serious bodily injury to her," read the affidavit.

She gave police permission to seek an emergency protective order against him, which was granted by Judge Jim Carroll.

She showed police where he had grabbed her and they noticed a bruise consistent with being grabbed by the upper arm with force.

Affidavits said Samson didn't necessary deny any of her accusations but tried to downplay his alleged role in them.

Samson was arrested and refused the services of a bail commissioner. After his appearance in court yesterday morning, he was ordered held on $5,000 cash-only bail and given a probable cause hearing date of April 10.

Officially, paperwork says he is charged with two felony counts of criminal threatening with a deadly weapon, one felony court of domestic violence criminal threatening with a deadly weapon, one count of simple assault, and one count of domestic violence simple assault.