IPSWICH — The brother of the Gloucester woman charged with running down a nun in a crosswalk, then giving police her sister's name last October, has now also been charged with lying to police during their investigation.
Justin Goodwin, 36, of 19 Commonwealth Ave., Gloucester, pleaded not guilty to one count of misleading police in an investigation during his arraignment yesterday afternoon in Newburyport District Court.
Goodwin had been arrested by Gloucester police Tuesday on a warrant stemming from allegations of "witness intimidation."
Judge Allen Swan set bail for Goodwin at $500 and also ordered him detained pending a probation violation hearing in a Salem case. He's due back in court Jan. 7, according to Steve O'Connell, a spokesman for Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett.
The charges come almost a month after Goodwin's sister Kalem Goodwin, 32, was charged with misleading police in an investigation, driving after license suspension, driving to endanger, failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk and giving police a false name, that of her sister.
Kalem Goodwin, 32, claimed that she was her sister at the scene of the Oct. 29 accident, which left a 77-year-old retired nun seriously injured.
During Kalem's arraignment, Justin Goodwin allegedly told his sister's lawyer that he was present in the car at the time of the accident and that it was another of his sisters, not Kalem, who was driving.
He then offered to vouch for Kalem during a court hearing.
Goodwin allegedly told Ipswich Police Lt. Dan Moriarty that his family had disowned him and Kalem, with whom he was living. He told the officer that another sister, despite the familial estrangement, had come by to borrow Kalem's boyfriend's car in Gloucester to do errands.
Then, while attending a probation hearing for Kalem Goodwin, Detective Edward Gallivan approached Justin, asking for a written statement. Justin then filled out a written statement, adding that the boyfriend had insisted that Justin accompany his other sister in the car, police said.
Justin Goodwin then testified at the probation hearing for Kalem that day, again alleging that another sister, not Kalem, had been driving.
Justin and Kalem Goodwin were also at the center of the Gloucester beating case in which Justin was allegedly attacked by a group of men outside the Old Timer's Tavern after they were asked to leave.
Justin Goodwin was hospitalized and underwent surgery after the attack, and has filed a civil suit against the alleged assailants and the bar's owner. The Goodwins say Justin was targeted in that incident because he is openly gay.
Kalem Goodwin, meanwhile, was sentenced to six months in jail by Gloucester District Court Judge Joseph Jennings last week on charges that she was involved in a car accident on Washington Street — and gave police her sister's identification in that instance as well.
In that case, she pled guilty to charges of giving police a false name, witness intimidation, and driving with a suspended license.
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