Bail set at $5G for man charged with attacking ex-girlfriend, vandalizing car

LYNN – A judge ordered $5,000 cash bail and GPS monitoring for a Somerville man who police said headbutted his ex and tampered with the brakes on her car.The judge also found the man to be a danger and a threat risk, noting in court documents that the defendant mouthed “(explicit) you” to the alleged victim when she testified against him in court.William Bolduc, 31, of 21 Lowden Ave. #3, Somerville, pleaded not guilty in Lynn District Court on Oct. 14 to assault and battery on a household/family member. Saugus Police were also filing charges of felony vandalism.Saugus Police reported responding to Atherton Street on the afternoon of Oct. 10 where the alleged victim said Bolduc had just headbutted her in the face and knocked her to the ground. The woman’s mother said she witnessed the alleged attack. The alleged victim had redness and swelling on her face and bruising and a cut on her hands, according to a report by Saugus Police Officer Kevin Cabral.The alleged victim told police Bolduc constantly called her, showed up at her job and refused to believe the relationship had ended. She said she had gotten a restraining order against the defendant but dropped it after Bolduc threatened to kill her parents and cut her throat if she didn’t vacate the order, police reported.She also alleged that Bolduc vandalized her car. She told police she had heard sounds coming from her driveway the previous night but thought it was an animal in the trash can. The following morning, she said she found the brake pedal in her car went all the way to the floor and the engine was running very roughly, police said.Police asked that she have a mechanic look at the car. The alleged victim’s father, a heavy-equipment mechanic, told police the following day that he always serviced the car and checked it out. The father said he had done a front brake job on the car in June but that he found one of the two bolts on the brake calipers (which hold the brake pads in place when they are activated and closed on the rotor) had been removed on the left front wheel, according to court documents. One of the two bolts on the right front wheel was so loose it could be turned by hand, the man told police, according to court documents.(The witness) said the only way this condition could occur on both sides would be deliberate sabotage,” police reported. “The calipers would eventually shift off their mounts and seize the rotors, causing the wheels to lock and break off from the axle, causing a catastrophic crash ? (the alleged victim) had stated to me that Bolduc had said to her on several occasions that he was ?going to do something to her car.'”The witness later showed officers a glass vase with what the witness said had been drained from the alleged victim’s gas tank.”You could see a mass of a white powder separated with the gasoline as it sat on the bottom of this vase,” police said. Police also were shown what appeared to be a bullet hole on the car.At his arraignment, a prosecutor asked that Bolduc be held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing.Judge Cathleen Campbell found Bolduc to be a danger after a dangerousness hearing Friday, citing testimony from the alleged victim and her mother.Prosecutors also submitted an affidavit from the alleged victim’s previous restraining order. The affidavit said that Bolduc is bipolar, threatened to slice the alleged victim’s throat and cut up her body, and had blackmailed another woman so she wouldn’t testify against him in a previous domestic violence case.”William can’t keep getting away with hurting women,” the alleged victim wrote in the affidavit. “One of these days he will murder someone.”Campbell ordered Bolduc be held on $5,000 cash bail. She also ordered conditions of release including that Bolduc be monitored by GPS and not be allowed in Saugus or near the alleged victim’s home or workplace and her mother’s home and workplace.Bolduc is scheduled to return to court Nov. 14.