
Epping Police Department via AP
This series of booking photos shows Joyce Coffey after being arrested four times in 26 hours on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Joyce Coffey of Epping, N.H., just didn't seem to get it -- or care -- when she was arrested four times in 26 hours earlier this week. The police run-ins stemmed from loud AC/DC and Guns N' Roses music police said could be heard blasting from her house as well as Coffey allegedly throwing a frying pan at her nephew.
Epping police said they first visited Coffey's home on Tuesday at 3 p.m. local time, when they warned her to turn down the music, WMUR-TV in New Hampshire reported. They returned an hour later, found the music was still playing, and arrested her.
Coffey, 53, was released on $500 personal recognizance bail, the Manchester Union Leader reported, but police returned to her home about five hours later -- again because of a report about loud music.
She was arrested a second time around 9:20 p.m.
Coffey was then released on $1,000 bail, but a mere four hours later, after yet another loud music complaint, the police returned at 1:10 a.m. Wednesday.
She was at this point arrested for a third time -- and released a short time later on $10,000 bail.
Police said they heard AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" as well as music by the group Guns N' Roses coming from Coffey's home during their first four visits, reported WMUR.
The final call to Coffey's home was for a report of a domestic disturbance. Police said Coffey's nephew alleged she threw a frying pan at him, hitting him in the head, when he tried to get some of his belongings from her house.
She was arrested a fourth, and on Thursday a judge ordered her to undergo a mental health evaluation.
If she completes the evaluation, the judge said, she will be released to home confinement with electronic monitoring.
The judge also suggested that Coffey, who is due back in court on Oct. 15, use headphones to listen to music, WMUR reported.
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at least she has good taste in music
Should have played "I fought the law and the law won"
That's subjective as I find that both of those bands blow.
Well stupid is as stupid does! I do to think she at least played good mucis that needs to be played loud to enjoy, but use headphones!
i turn up the music very load it helps to drown out the voices
Judas Priest - "Breaking the Law" shoulda been on there too.
Guns n Roses sux.
She just wanted to get a decent mug shot - fourth times the charm.
Funny thing is you can play rap music and yell and scream all night in Brooklyn and the cops don't even show up.
yankee redneck
That would be just plain trash. There are no Yankee rednecks, even when they move to a real redneck area. When they move, they just become Damn Yankee trash. Rednecks are not only determined by lifestyle, but also by birthplace. Many rednecks are well-educated, articulate, and have excellent jobs, but they are still rednecks.
It was the bath salts! Good thing she didn't eat someone's face....
Someone should tell this Problem Child that She's Got Balls. I know a neighbor claimed You Shook Me All Night Long, but Rock N Roll Ain't Noise Pollution. As far as I'm concerned, Anything Goes, so Let There Be Rock and Have A Drink On Me. Who knows, some Love Hungry Man may come along and ask Can I Sit Next to You Girl.
Sometimes you just have a metal day and sometimes you just have a mental day. Once in a while you have both at the same time. Season ticket on a one way ride!
Let's party all night should have been in there.
At least she was playing music instead of that rap crap garbage. Talk about sucking. Some dorks even have the nerve to call that no talent @!$%# music.
You go into the inner city at night to uphold the law and tell me how it turns out.
Oh crap, I see my ex is out and about again.... at least the photos are better than the wedding shots.
Much better than the crappy 'music' coming from those irritating boom cars.
If only she knew, she could have done evolution of a smile
Man! That is one ugly woman, and stupid to boot! Didn't she ever hear of headsets, those things you can put on your ears so you can listen to music without having to wake up the whole neighborhood?
And there you have it folks, your tax dollars fighting crime on song at a time. Thankfully this person was stopped before she truly reached a destructive path. Had the likes of P-diddy Bobby brown come on the radio we truly would have known what she was capable of.
A frying pan to the nephews head? Funny how today thats a mortal sin, but just 20 years ago it was a common household joke. Hell, my parents were watching Archie threaten to send Alice to the moon when i was growing up.
Sensitive society doesn't approve. Maybe thats why there are so many fawked up kids these days.. Can't put a good whoopin on em when they need it. Between rap music and lack of discipline America is becoming a cesspool of whiny spoiled brats.
GCooper,
"my parents were watching Archie threaten to send Alice to the moon when i was growing up."
I know what you are talking about, but it was Ralph Cramdon (played by Jacky Gleason in The Honeymooners) who was always threatening to send his wife Alice to the moon. His famous line was, "Bang! Zoom! Straight to the moon!". That always cracked me up. I think you were thinking of Archie Bunker of All in the Family. I think his wife's name was Edith.
she's do able...hurl...
She might be a terrorist! Send her to GITMO!! Forever! No trail needed!
Scary thought eh? : )
Bob the amount of booze it would take to make her look even remotely attractive is the same amount that would kill you.
Yeaaah, but she wore that same yellow outfit four times running!
What a fashion troll!!!
The least she cudda done...wuz change outfits! SHEEEEESCH!!
Very, very tacky! LOL!!
<sarcasm galore>
the problem gcooper, is that we have too many losers that simply take their own failures out on the wife and kids by beating on them and calling it "discipline"
Okicize Wicasa Yata Pi
YaH, but playin rap music let's my hold my ballz cause someone be tryin to steal my spew..
I got a neighbor every year is a polish party all night long til 5am polish music LOUD,,tolerance people,.
She displays such class. Her mama must be so proud.
I wonder what real criminal deeds were perpetrated, while they dealt forcefully with this obviously dangerous desperado???
Just strap her down, kicking and screaming, and sterilize her already. Then force her to relocate someplace miles away from people where she can blare her music all she wants.
The sad thing is, I probably go to work everyday and bust my chops so she can get a check every month.
The sad thing is that if she was blaring a title like "Onward Christian Soldiers" . She would enjoy huge support and outrage upon the authorities for troubling her, by the right.
Conversely, If she was blaring the Moslem call to prayers??? She would enjoy the Feds, and ACLU jumping in with both feet. And the cops would be investigated for profiling.
Being , just Rock & Roll??? , No rights! Bust her low life @##!! Yup, the way it is.
Bruce: I missed the part where she was on public assistance?? Are you privy to info we don't have??
Rene278
You have obviously never been to Noxen.
I've always felt stereo equipment should be registered, and the owners be required to attend stereo safety classes. But I gotta say this lil' rock n roller is a "looker".
No, you just missed the word "probably" in my post.... With behavior like this, I don't see how she could hold and keep a job....
I am not a rocket scientist but I am guessing all four arrests had to do with Ms. Coffey trying to force her nephew from her house. On a second note, why is Ms. Coffey being given a free pass here? This reads like she should have been arrested and charged with a felony under Aggravated Battery (domestic). I guess the rules are different for women.
she should been sent for the MH eval after the 2nd arrest....
You definitely aren't a rocket scientist nor an English major because the article clearly lists what and why she was arrested for:
#1. An hour after 3Pm arrested for loud music
#2. Around 9:20PM again for loud music
#3. Around 1:10AM again for loud music
#4. Domestic disturbance for allegedly throwing a frying pan.
I always thought Epping was pretty rural. Guess not. But still wonder how loud her music was that they could arrest her for it at 3PM...
PS I always thought NH's motto was Live Free or Die? I guess it is Live Quietly... unless you happen to live by a NASCAR which don't have to comply with noise levels.
As a musician that has struggled with noise ordinances let me break it down:
In most municipalities, there are exceptions to noise ordinances for commerical activity like lawnmowers during certain hours. Amplified music is almost never subject to these exceptions.
In other words, if you don't have a permit, a neighbor can call the cops on you at any time for any reason, even if the music is only .00001 db or even less than other ambient noises (like chirping insects or trains). As long as the police can hear the music before you open the door, they have to respond to any and all noise complaints against you.
We live in a townhouse that shared a wall with our neighbors and they used to play their music with the bass up very loud. It would shake our wall and at one point even knocked a picture frame off because the wall was bouncing so much. I think their speakers were right next to it. At that point we called the cops, even though it was the middle of the day. We had tolerated them for weeks, but after speaking with them several times and asking if they could be respectful of the fact that we shared a wall it was the final straw. Neighbors may have had previous problems with her that were not reported to the police and this time it was the final straw.
well she sounded like she needed mental health the first two times but I didnt know people got arrested for loud music! i thought they would get a summons or anything minor...was that necessary? and a 10,000 bail for it....people do a lot more serious crimes why dont they go after those guys
lauriesarno said, "she should been sent for the MH eval after the 2nd arrest...."
For loud music? You can't be serious.
I certainly wouldn't have let her go. after a 2nd time she would have cooled her jets in jail until after 8 in the am. Hope she has to pay a stiff fine.
What kind of Mayberry police department books and releases someone after being arrested three times in the same day? I'm pretty sure the police in my city may let you out on a book and release once but after being picked up a second time you'd spend the night in jail or until you saw a judge.
In Philly, it takes atleast 24 hours to even get processed into the jail, then another 12 or so to get processed out, and time in the drunk tank is atleast 24 hours. Also to Voter in LA, i know it says domestic disturbance, but i think that is misleading, common sense would tell you, if you throw and hit someone in the head with a frying pan, it would be more like Agg Assault/Domestic Violence, but in a backass town, it may only be a dom disturbance. And it does say she hit him in the head with it before you point out mistakes you think i made
cos their at the donut shop and not doing their job looking for crime ; so when the phone rings with a complaint they will respond to show their doing such a good job while real crime goes on and on ,and now this lady has to be on the bracelet and spend the next year paying for probation , so they can keep the donut shop in biz..........and thats where her nephew works...lol
Most noise ordinances are complaint based...like my neighbor's effing dogs that bark 24/7. I complained several times to the police....a few times at 3am. Eventually the noise stopped. (She decided to keep th dog inside at night.)
So for the three offences she paid 11,500$ ... teh fuk? I don't even get that kind of play money
I'm a mental health prescriber and no, she wouldn't be subject to an evaluation based on playing loud music- it's because it is a likely symptom of a greater lack in judgement that one would expect to see in mania. As for you, honkey chop, there's little in the way of treatment for antisocial personality. good luck to you- although it's more likely the people who have to put up with you who'll need it.
Boy, in beautiful Oakland, unless there's bleeding and gunplay you'll never see the cops once, let alone 4 times.
She should be glad she's in NH which doesn't have a huge Prisons for Profit system. If she were in let's say a place like Texas, she'd have a series of felonies racked up against her with a raging mean spirited public frothing at the mouth and anxious to be on the jury to lock her up for 10, 20, 30 years and think it's "justice" somehow.
Those who thought up the Prisons for Profit system were pure geniuses. They knew that many Americans aren't well off mentally and would gladly support their evil profiteering, as too many of the public have an insatiable quest to find the scapegoats that will make all their repulsive personal flaws and shortcomings magically disappear.
How stupid is this story?
it certainly is not a "headline news".....simply an ugly head that should stay in the locality.
At least the choice in music was good and the story gave me a laugh.
Better something like this than killings for a change ;)
This was barely news in our local paper. NBC News must be really hard up.
Number3rTech: she threw a frying pan at her nephew, if she had hit him, it might have been a KILLING.
wodowntrucker: maybe she was playing the music trying to keep the nephew out of "her" house.
There is no telling with some people. The nephew was trying to get some of his stuff out of her house? I wonder just how bad the situation had become.
Still a good laugh since no one was injured or killed for a change ;)
Cowtown according to the article, the nephew claims she did hit him in the head with it
How can anyone claim AC/DC and Guns N Roses to be good music? I know, to each their own, but come on people. This is white trash city.
Oregon if you like that monkey rap music thats fine but don't dis the classics (Not being racist but the beat of rap is starting to get worse. Not even respectable rap anymore)
More important than how stupid is this story....how far down the crapper is your career if you get assigned to cover this story? And as an aside, honkychop you're an a-hole who's breaking the law and don't be surprised when the cops come arrest you!
TheWhiteJudge:: Our college radio station plays real music-- it is a PBS station. My car would die of heart failure if someone would even TRY to change the radio from that station. That is the only radio station it has ever known-- and it has been my car for 17 years.
meth anyone ? what else is cheap and deadly ? makes people stupid and ugly....yeah...it's meth.
Some marijuana with high THC content does along with alcohol that I know of.
Yes, but beer is cheaper, just ask George Bush up there years ago---while driving--and look what we got from him?--So I can not wait to see if she will take over and ruin our country in other ways, since she is getting to know the government like George the hard way--
alumette....Is that what happened to you?
Meth was my first thought, too.
I am also thinking along the lines of too much alcohol. Although, after looking at the pictures, I think maybe she overdid the sun (sunstroke = fried brain), unless she doesn't know how to put on blush.
Please don't try to imply this woman was smoking herb. It's so much better and above this lowlife. Given the small chance that she was smoking, I guarantee the garbage this lady would be able to find wouldn't be high in anything except for pesticides, probably schwag.
If she WAS smoking weed, that wasn't all she was doing. That or I have to agree with Pat, she would have chilled much sooner unless that was some real interesting 420.
Weed, what weed?? She hasn't seen any.............Judge ordering mental health evaluation and telling her to use headset to listen to music now that's just plain funny...
Further proof that you just can't fix stupid!
free breakfast, lunch and dinner lucky hitch............
Wayne's world! Wayne's world! It's party time! Excellent!
She looks like every other New England woman I ever met.
You are right on the button about the NE women. 10 out of 9 have a face that would scare a coal train up a dirt road.
I'm stealing that...
Ayah, that's how they look up theyah, musta got that tan from pickin' blubreze, owha weedin' the weed field down Swansee.
excuse me gentlemen! i'm from NH and we have beautiful women, myself included.
the pics are funny though! lol
sounds like southern girls do not have very high standards. i guess thats a good thing for you honky
"10 out of 9 have a face that would scare a coal train up a dirt road."
Lmao, i'm stealing this too :D Thanks for the laugh!
honkey, you take top prize for stupid on today's vine! I think you and the woman in the article would make quite the couple.
What an idiot.
Ignorant people like her disgust me. She is abusing the court system and wasting tax payers money. If it is drugs, I hope she OD's.
cak123: Your a sick f-er: you gota be a teawacker?
Really don't care what you think of me....and I am a democrat...but I'm not a bleeding heart one.
You are one true sick individual, cak123.
"Really don't care what you think of me....and I am a democrat...but I'm not a bleeding heart one" Just a stupid one!
You people are so sanctimonious....you REALLY care?? I mean REALLY REALLY CARE about this woman?? She is obviously abusing the law and using up valuable tax dollars because of her ignorance. So what, if she is a drug user chances are she is going to keep on abusing them....and possibly OD> Big deal...happens everyday in America. I care more about the children that are affected by people like her. Yes I AM a Democrat.....but like I said, NOT A BLEEDING HEART ONE!! And if you care so much Richard Mordhorst, Ryan in TX and OldDog47.....go find her and help her out of her mess and show us how much you REALLY CARE about this woman!! Hypocrites....all of you.
Bathsalting! her nephew is lucky she didn't eat his face off..
according to the police report and drug test the guy in Florida was not using bath salts. So before you comment on something get the facts straight first. In fact the only thing that was in his system was marijuana.
hey Desiree- stupid this was in New Hampshire not Florida.
Hey stupid cowtowntrucker, Desiree was referring to the incident in Florida where a guy was presumed to be high on bath salts after he was found chewing on a homeless man's face.
Yo Des, when i get high, all i want to eat is pussy.
Hilarious
ummmmmm arrested at 4pm for music,that's a joke u can listen to music as loud as you want until 11pm....in NY anyway..........i like how shes smiling in the last mugshot...shes like @!$%# it
Funny, Look At the Picture Progessions, in 24 hours...
Picture 1. Uh Oh I'm In Trouble !
Picture 2. I'm SHOCKED It Happened AGAIN!
Picture 3. Life Just AIN'T Fair !
Picture 4. So THERE, I Proved My Point !
Perhaps the progression fits the song, "Highway to Hell." Think she might have at least got that song right. Must of been one &$%& of a party.
Maybe the judicial system in Epping needs to re-evaluate how many times someone has to be arrested in a day. Personally, I think twice is enough to hold someone until the next day.
Guess we should all be happy you don't make the laws.
No comment !
hey.........put your teeth in honey ! ya might hear better ! oh yeah, have another drink
We had a neighbor who badly needed psychiatric help. Local social services (Richmond Va) is totally worthless. It took four arrests to get her help and with it, she is a whole different person.
But was she arrested 4 times in 24 hours? We would not have heard about this woman if she had been arrested 4 times in a month, or even a week. 4 arrests is no big deal in some places, but 4 in one day is something else.
Sorry, but the first three arrests are just idiotic.
As I type this, I can hear my neighbors music from inside my house. I am not going to call the police though.
Talk about a waste of tax payers money. Sounds like her neighbors are curmudgeons.
It would appear that her neighbors have nothing better to do than call the police on people because they don't like them.
The only call that had any merit, was the last one.
Definitely the frying pan one, she looks the iron skillet type
We live in a quiet neighborhood and we all make sure it stys that way. If the music is to loud first we ask them too turn it down. If they don't we call the cops and then they do or they pay the price.
5150
oops someone beat me to it
Remind me never to go thru Epping, N.H... The Poolice are as dumb Joyce... She should have been ordered to see a SHRINK the 2nd trip...assuming she was sober...
God Bless America... AGAIN... SOON...
obviously one of the illegal muslims supporters! ! ! ya know thick between the ears! ! !
At least he has something between her ears, unlike you !!!
I remember when I used to go to New England Dragway in Epping to watch the races. That was a good many years ago. Now it seems it's been taken over by lunatics like this one. I hope they toss her ignorant ass in jail for a year.
We have the same joke here in New Mexico. First, you should be able to kick out the jams till at least 10:00pm. So first 2 bust are void. Now here is the funny part (and law enforcement please take note) Jamin @ 1:30indakin am, your in trouble (Disrespect) felony. Cops should have busted her and confiscated her stereo (evidents). Law, go figure. They always make you do the hard stupid parts. But hell yea get headphones. "I did". Cool people always seem 2 do things the hard way. Good luck girl. U ROCK!!