Dover Man Wanted On Sexual Assault Charge In Portsmouth

PORTSMOUTH, NH — A New Hampshire man is wanted on sexual assault charges after an incident on Islingston Street Tuesday.

Around 1:30 p.m., officers were sent to investigate a report of a girl assaulted by a man. When police arrived, they spoke with a man who claimed another man had sexually assaulted his daughter while he was walking near a local restaurant. The man accused the suspect of grabbing the girl's butt when he walked by, according to a police report.

They followed the man for a while before police arrived and gave a description to officers.

Police investigated the incident and developed Cody Gigliotti as a suspect. He was last known to live in Dover.

"The suspect is officially wanted," Sgt. Kuffer Kaltenbron of the Portsmouth Police Department said in an email.

Gigliotti is no stranger to police. He was charged with possession of a controlled drug in May out of Rochester. Gigliotti was charged with burglary in September 2018 in Portsmouth and the case is still active with suspect failing to appear in Rockingham County Superior Court in June 2019 after he failed to show for a competency evaluation. He is due back in court Aug. 10.

Gigliotti was also charged with witness tampering in Somersworth in September 2015, stalking in Rochester in January 2017, and drug possession and loitering charges in Somersworth in September 2017, but those charges were later nolle prossed. He was charged with second-degree assault and reckless conduct in Rochester in September 2016 but the charges were later dismissed.

Editor's note: This post was derived from information supplied by the Portsmouth Police Department and Rockingham County Superior Court and does not indicate a conviction. This link explains the removal request process for New Hampshire Patch police reports.

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