BY ROD HANSEN

A man faces a felony charge of criminal threatening after telling a police officer he’d shoot him in the head during a local protective order investigation, police said.

Michael Belanger, 49, also faces two Class A misdemeanor charges of violating a protective order following a chain of events that began on Friday, May 18.

Belanger allegedly violated a domestic violence protective order that day by arriving at his wife’s home, at 127 Thorndike Road, according to court records.

Belanger left the area before police could detain him, and family members reported he had made statements that he would not surrender to police and that he would harm himself.

The following day, Weare officer Joe Kelley contacted Belanger through his cell phone and unsuccessfully attempted to convince Belanger to turn himself in. Belanger threatened to shoot Kelley in the head during the conversation and also said that he would not be taken alive.

Police later learned Belanger was likely at the Country Lake Resort in Tilton, and forwarded that information to the Tilton Police Department.

Tilton officers found Belanger’s car at the resort and located him at one of the cottages there.

Belanger produced a knife when police tried to apprehend him, though Tilton officers were able to subdue him using a Taser.

Weare police then took Belanger to the Hillsborough County Department of Corrections in Manchester pending his arraignment in Goffstown District Court on Monday, March 21.

At that arraignment, Judge Michael Ryan ordered Belanger held at Manchester’s Valley Street Jail in lieu of $25,000 cash bail pending probable cause hearing and a trial.

Belanger is scheduled for a probable cause hearing for the criminal threatening charge Tuesday, June 5, at 11 a.m. in Goffstown District Court.

A trial for the violation of a protective order charges was set for Tuesday, Aug. 14, at 1 p.m. in Goffstown District Court.