Related files internal affairs investigation New Hampshire Republican Congressman Jonathan Stone, a former police officer, has been released from prison, with his former colleagues saying they were upset by some of his behavior and allegedly violent comments.
New Hampshire has a fairly large state legislature for a relatively small state, with a total of 400 seats, three of which are vacant. Republicans currently hold a narrow 201-194 majority over Democrats and two independents.
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For most of Mr. Stone’s tenure, the public knew little about his career with the Claremont Police Department. But the state Supreme Court ruled last month that a report related to the 2006 internal affairs investigation into Stone must be made public.
The report can be divided into two parts: his violent comments towards his CPD colleagues and his relationship with a then 16-year-old girl.
In their investigation into the first matter, investigators spoke to 18 people, 15 of whom worked for the department. The claims of many of those figures paint a bleak picture of Stone’s thoughts and impulses.
According to statements included in the report, Stone allegedly made the following threats:
- shoot up the department;
- He forced then-Chief Alex Scott to watch him rape Scott’s wife.
- could kill Chief Scott and possibly harm other members of his family.
There were also reports that Stone had made multiple threats with a silenced weapon and had violated orders not to contact witnesses involved in the investigation.
“If he gets fired, people are worried he’ll get mailed,” one detective claimed in the report. “After a conflict with him, I get worried that he will try to do something to my wife or family. People generally think he is crazy and why he is a police officer. I am wondering.”
Another argued that Stone’s mental stability was “routine.”
During questioning, Stone admitted that he was attracted to the police chief’s wife and that he had made violent comments to others in anger. But otherwise he seemed to duck many pointed questions about specific threats, often responding with “I don’t remember that” or “I don’t remember.” One investigator speculated at the time that Stone’s concrete answers in some cases and vague answers in others represented a classic example of “selective memory.”
As for the girl Stone met when he was 15, Stone claimed the two struck up a friendship, but acknowledged she may have “had feelings for him.” According to reports, Stone frequently spoke to the girl on the phone, sometimes for more than an hour, and was seen with her both on and off duty.
The girl, whose name was redacted in the report, told investigators at the time that she and Stone planned to drive to Canada when she turned 18 and go to bars together. She also reportedly had similar plans to play in America when she turned 21.
The girl and Stone denied any sexual relationship, but one witness claimed they may have discussed having sex once the girl turned 17. Reports also indicate that the girl opened up to Stone about her own sex life and her past relationships.
Stone was fired in March 2006 as a result of the investigation, but later partnered with the police union to negotiate a more favorable separation agreement. In exchange for Stone resigning from his force and becoming a police officer, the department and city agreed to remove his internal affairs investigation from his personnel file. The department kept a copy of the report.
Former Chief Scott, who retired from the department in 2017 and is now a lawyer in Claremont, told the Valley News, “The document speaks for itself. I don’t really have anything to add.”
“This happened 18 years ago,” he said.
Stone did not respond to requests for comment from InDepthNH.org, and his attorney declined to comment.
Blaze News reached out to Stone’s colleague in the House, Republican state Rep. Mike Belcher, who said he was “shocked by the nature of the allegations.”
“The truth of this matter remains to be seen, but all involved hope that it is not true.”
Belcher also expressed disappointment that police officers are sometimes given preferential treatment. He claimed to know of “multiple” instances in which “obscene conduct by law enforcement officers has been covered up both formally and informally.”
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