NOAH S. WIXOM
WESTFIELD – An Orange Street resident added the fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth and sixtieth entries to his criminal record after he allegedly grabbed the mother of his child by her neck and pushed her to the floor while her three children watched.
Noah S. Wixom, 37, of 51 Orange St., Westfield, was arraigned June 11 on charges of of assault and battery on a family or household member, strangulation or suffocation and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
The charges stem from a reported domestic disturbance which Westfield Police Officers Jamie Campbell and Officer Matthew Preuss responded to at 9:14 p.m. on June 11.
Campbell reports she found the victim with her three children in her truck on Orange Street.
The woman said that her boyfriend (and the father of her youngest child) had become verbally aggressive when he returned home from a bar. The victim said that he became angry when she told him to go back to the bar and he pushed her dinner off the table before he began hitting her with pillows and then started to slap her with an open hand.
When the man did not calm and after he woke up her two boys, the woman told Campbell, she put her five-month old daughter into her baby carrier and attempted to leave.
It was then, she said, that the man grabbed her by the throat “and pushed her up off the floor and up against the outside wall of the porch.” The man dropped the victim after her two boys started screaming at him to stop, Campbell reports. She wrote in her arrest report that the boys said “mommy was being choked by Noah on the porch.”
Wixom was arrested without incident and arraigned the next day in Westfield District Court.
There, Assistant District Attorney Thomas McLeod filed a motion for pretrial detention based on the defendant’s dangerousness writing “the Commonwealth argues that there are no conditions of release that will reasonably assure the safety of any other person.”
In support of his claim, McLeod pointed to Wixom’s nine-page criminal history detailing the 57 previous charges for which he has been arraigned in Massachusetts as an adult, two juvenile charges in Massachusetts, two abuse prevention orders filed by two different plaintiffs in Massachusetts and a ten-page NCIC report listing his criminal history in Connecticut and New York.
The charges for which Wixom has been previously arraigned include numerous charges for knowingly receiving stolen property, larceny, possession of a firearm without a permit, possession of brass knuckles, possession of cocaine, assault with a dangerous weapon, malicious destruction of property and a variety of motor vehicle offenses.
Judge William J. O’Grady denied McLeod’s motion for pretrial detention and set bail at $10,000.
Wixom was initially held in lieu of bail but was released two days later pending a July 10 hearing when the bail was posted.
O’Grady required a multitude of conditions of release.
He ordered that Wixom stay away from the victim’s home and abide by the conditions of the abuse prevention order the issued to protect her. To ensure compliance, he ordered Wixom to comply with GPS monitoring.
O’Grady also ordered that Wixom remain alcohol free and submit both to random testing and a remote alcohol testing device.
Wixom was also ordered to refrain from possession of firearms or dangerous weapons, to surrender his passport and to remain in Massachusetts.
