Man held without bail after alleged home invasion

LYNN – A judge ordered a Chelsea man held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing after the man allegedly forced his way into a home Thursday and stabbed the resident, from whom he was trying to buy marijuana.”As we were placing (the defendant) in the back of the cruiser he yelled out ?I was there to buy weed,'” Lynn Police Officer David Harney wrote in a report.Samson A. Beauregard, 40, of 2 Parkway Court #6, Chelsea, was arrested and charged with home invasion; and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon; at 3:20 p.m. Thursday.He was arraigned on the charges Friday in Lynn District Court where a plea of not guilty was entered on his behalf.Police responded to the area of 15 Rockaway St. Thursday on the report of a fight and a stabbing victim, according to police.The alleged victim told police Beauregard forced his way into the alleged victim’s home and tried to rob him after the alleged victim responded to Beauregard’s knock, according to police. The alleged victim told police that Beauregard slashed him on his right cheek and then stabbed him in the left chest when the alleged victim said he had nothing to give.The alleged victim’s father heard the fight and came running down the stairs and chased Beauregard out of the house, the alleged victim told police.Both the father and son chased Beauregard and caught up and wrestled with the defendant near 15 Rockaway St., around the corner from the family’s home, when police were called.The alleged victim told police he thought Beauregard was trying to steal marijuana.”I never saw him before,” the alleged victim told police, according to the officer’s report. “But I do sell weed and maybe he found out.”(Police reported recovering a sandwich bag with 12 individually-wrapped packets of suspected marijuana in Beauregard’s right coat pocket. The alleged victim said the suspected drugs belonged to him and he will be summonsed into court for possession with intent to distribute Class D drugs, police said.)Beauregard had a different version of events, however.Beauregard said he went to the home to set up a Lynn connection to buy marijuana and was allowed into the house, according to the police report. Beauregard told officers he wanted to compare his marijuana with the alleged victim’s marijuana “to see if he would like it.” But the alleged victim tried to steal Beauregard’s marijuana and the two began to fight, police said Beauregard reported.”Beauregard said the father then joined in and he saw a knife on the floor and used it to defend himself,” police said.A prosecutor requested Friday that Beauregard be held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing.Judge Stacey Fortes found probable cause to hold Beauregard and scheduled him to return to court for a dangerousness hearing Thursday.The alleged victim was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to police.