NASHUA – When Shawn Goodine appeared in a doorway at 148.5 Chestnut St. on Friday, one of the police officers who’d just arrived at the residence asked him to step out so they could talk, according to police and court reports.

But when he allegedly told the officer “no,” then went back into the large apartment building at the corner of Chestnut and Brook streets, Goodine indicated to a district court judge Monday that he never expected his refusal would trigger an 11-hour standoff.

“The whole thing got wicked blown out of proportion,” Goodine told Judge James Leary during Monday’s arraignment, which took place in Nashua district court via video conference from Valley Street jail.

Goodine, 43, was arraigned Monday on six charges – all misdemeanors – stemming from the incident, during which officials shut down several streets just south of Lake Street, east of Pine Street, and west of Hamilton Street, as members of a SWAT team worked out of a command post they set up shortly after the standoff began.

The charges include three counts of criminal threatening, two counts of criminal mischief, and one count of resisting arrest or detention.

Leary, after hearing from Nashua police Prosecutor Katherine Muzzy and Goodine himself, adopted Muzzy’s recommendation that Goodine be housed on preventive detention.

“My thought is to hold you … I need to have a plan to know what you are going to do,” Leary said, referring to Goodine’s bail conditions. “I can’t release you onto the street after what happened Friday.”

He advised Goodine to meet with his attorney when he gets back to Valley Street jail. “If your attorney wants a bail hearing, we’ll schedule one the next day,” Leary said.

Police said in statements released during the weekend that additional charges could be filed against Goodine, possibly indicating they were leaving open the possibility they may file felony charges if they were able to locate the firearm they believed Goodine had on him during the standoff.

Muzzy said that Goodine had denied he had a firearm, and police, even after obtaining a search warrant and “conducting an exhaustive search,” weren’t able to come up with it.

Police then “reinitiated contact” with Goodine, and were able to “learn the location of the firearm … and it has since been located,” Muzzy said.

She also told the court Goodine has a “lengthy criminal history,” including firearm-related charges and a string of domestic violence offenses.

Many of those offenses involved the alleged victim in the incident that triggered the standoff. Goodine allegedly threatened both her and her mother with a knife, prompting them to call police.

Dean Shalhoup may be reached at 594-1256, or at dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com.

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