Teacher Arrested for Second Time This Week

A former Merrimack woman was arrested for the second time this week, the fourth time since December, on charges related to domestic altercations with her husband.

Cassandra Beauchesne, 28, of 38 Hawthorne Drive, Bedford, was arrested by Wednesday, Sept. 27, on charges of stalking and breach of bail conditions for contacting who husband only hours after a judge ordered her to have no contact with him.

On Monday, Sept. 26, Beauchesne, an elementary school teacher in Goffstown, was arrested and charged with criminal mischief for swinging a lawn chair and damaging her husband Eric Beauchesne's computer.

Cassandra Beauchesne was arraigned in Milford's district court on Tuesday where judge Martha Crocker released her on $4,500 personal recognizance and $500 cash or surety bail. She ordered Cassandra Beauchesne to stay away from her former home at 292 Baboosic Lake Road, where her husband lives, and to have no contact with him.

But, according to court documents, Merrimack Police Officer Michael Marcotte took a report from Eric Beauchesne on Tuesday evening that he suspected his wife had breached bail conditions set earlier that day when she started texting and calling him Tuesday afternoon.

Eric Beauchesne showed Marcotte his phone, with text messages and missed calls from a phone number Marcotte recognized as that of Cassandra Beauchesne, and Eric Beauchesne said he also picked up a call from a restricted number that turned out to be his wife who began yelling at him and continued to yell until he hung up on her, court documents show.

Cassandra Beauchesne has a storied history when it comes to charges against her in connection to domestic problems with Eric Beauchesne.

On Dec. 23, 2010, she was arrested on four counts of simple assault for slapping, punching and twice choking her husband.

On March 11, she was arrested a second time, charged with two felony counts of second-degree assault and one count of simple assault for allegedly hitting and choking him.

After her latest arraignment, this morning, Cassandra Beauchesne was released on $5,000 personal recognizance bail. She is scheduled to stand trial in Merrimack's district court on Oct. 25 for Monday's charge of criminal mischief and she'll face a second trial on Nov. 8 for the charges levied in her most recent arrest. She has again been ordered no contact with Eric Beauchesne.

Cassandra Beauchesne has been a teacher at Goffstown's Maple Avenue Elementary School for six years. According to a report from the Union Leader, she was on leave last year following her legal issues but returned this fall. A call to the principal of the school was not returned.