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Bail revoked for teen charged with bat attack
By MICHAEL COUSINEAU
Union Leader Staff
9 hours, 9 minutes ago
Manchester — A Manchester teenager charged with severely beating a man with a baseball bat was behind bars last night after his two bail bondsmen revoked his bail.
The two firms that posted Lawrence Barbosa’s $100,000 bail pulled it after a county prosecutor filed court papers asking a judge to revoke Barbosa’s bail because he never reported for bail supervision.
“Something’s wrong if the state is looking to revoke the bail,” bail enforcement agent Larry Wilkinson said. “When it’s $100,000, that’s a substantial amount of bail to lose.”
Assistant Hillsborough County Attorney Lisa Drescher wrote in court papers that Barbosa’s “failure to abide by the condition that he report weekly for bail supervision demonstrates that he is a flight risk.”
A bail revocation hearing was set for Jan. 13 in Hillsborough County Superior Court.
Wilkinson, who works for Gilberti Bail Bondsman, and Hadley Dorfman from Denis Bail Bonds, coaxed Barbosa out of a Lincoln Street house yesterday afternoon. Each company had put up $50,000 bail.
“Under the law, we can revoke the bail,” Wilkinson said.
Hillsborough County Sheriff Sgt. William Barry confirmed the bail bondsmen pulled the bail.
Barbosa, 17, of 19 S. Lincoln St., faces trial Feb. 21 on a charge of first-degree assault in the baseball bat attack that left 41-year-old Steven Raymond a quadriplegic. The Aug. 11 attack allegedly was sparked after Raymond reprimanded neighborhood children who were firing BBs at cars. Four people were charged in connection with the attack.
Raymond, who was hit in the head with a red aluminum baseball bat, spent months in Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon before he was recently released. He suffered a fractured skull and brain damage.
Staff Reporter Pat Grossmith contributed to this report.
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