Police probe domestic case hours after guilty plea

Brian Bundza

ROCHESTER - Rochester Police are investigating a domestic disturbance from last week involving a man who earlier in the day had been sentenced in Strafford County Superior Court for two second-degree assault charges in connection with an attack on a former female acquaintance.

Brian Bundza, whose March 17 plea deal allowed him to avoid two 3 ½-7-year prison sentences, is currently being investigated in connection with the incident, said Rochester Police Capt. Paul Toussaint.

As part of the plea deal worked out with prosecutors, Bundza was given a 12-month suspended sentence pending his good behavior for two years. Last week’s incident evolved just hours after his sentencing.

Other conditions to the sentence were drug and alcohol counseling, nonspecified restitution, 60 hours of community service, no contact with the past victim and anger management evaluations.

Toussaint said the current incident “involves a domestic disturbance and involves Bundza and a female.

Bundza, 30, of 9 Deerfield Court, was indicted in September on two felony counts of second-degree assault on a female dating back to an incident on Jan.1 of last year.

In that attack, Bundza is said to have grabbed the woman and squeezed her hand and fingers and also struck her head with his head or hand, causing her to lose three teeth, according to the Sept. 19 indictment handed down by a Strafford County Grand Jury.

Toussaint said he could disclose little else about last week’s incident because the investigation is ongoing. He said a male was transported to Frisbie Memorial Hospital as a result of the incident, but would not verify that the patient was Bundza. Toussaint did say, however, that the incident involved just two people: a male and a female.

He said police were dispatched to what was described as a “domestic disturbance” around 10 p.m. that night.