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It wasn’t until 11 hours later that Maynard, after being allowed back into her apartment, found her fourth cat, Oliver, hiding under the couch. Since that day, she said her life has been turned upside down.
The daughter of a disabled woman being evicted from her apartment of 15 years has opened a GoFundMe page to help pay for her mom’s relocation costs, including the required upfront first month’s rent and security deposit.
Two men are facing first-degree murder charges, one for the killing of two men at a Bedford hotel and the other for the murder of a Manchester man whose body later was found buried at a construction site in Massachusetts.
An update on the case of Harmony Montgomery, missing since late 2019, calls for the New Hampshire Division of Children Youth and Families to require confirmation of the residence of all children known to be members of a household, including one who is alleged to have moved from a family.
A Jaffrey man is being held without bail on charges he broke into an Evergreen Circle home and, while wielding a hatchet, woke a sleeping couple and asked the husband, “How do you want to die?”
“I’m sure there are more people like Jeremy out there but I don’t know who they are because lots of times those cases don’t hit our desks,” public defender Michael T Hamman said.
The man accused of killing a Manchester man in March of 2020 and then burying him in Lawrence, Mass., will be held without bail pending trial even though the case against him is largely circumstantial, a judge has ruled.
Justin Worster was irate, drunk and armed with a Smith and Wesson handgun Sunday night that he shoved into a woman’s stomach as she sat next to him at the bar inside Mi Jalisco Mexican Grill and Cantina, according to court documents.
A 3-year-old child was bruised literally from head to toe, with her back completely covered in bruises when she was treated Sunday by an emergency room physician in Nashua.
Judge Amy Messer said bail will convert to personal recognizance once Montgomery enters and successfully completes rehab at the Cynthia Day program in Nashua.
The widow of a murdered Manchester man was caught deleting emails from her joint account with the accused killer while being interviewed by police inside the Lawrence, Mass., police station, according to court testimony.
DCYF’s charge is to investigate cases of abuse and neglect and to work with families and children involved in such instances. Ideally the investigation of a case is completed in 60 days but sometimes a case can be so complex that it takes much longer.
A Grand Jury considers evidence presented by the County Attorney or the Attorney General and decides whether there is sufficient evidence to formally charge a person with committing a crime. A grand jury does not decide a person’s guilt or innocence. These indictments are part of the public record and released monthly.
Gov. Chris Sununu has ordered the state Division of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) to start an “immediate review” of the case of 7-year-old Harmony Montgomery, who has been missing for more than two years.
With a search for 7-year-old Harmony Montgomery ongoing for weeks now, the question still being asked, but for which the answer remains elusive, is how does a child go missing for more than two years and neither police nor child protection services know about it?
After reviewing the file and speaking with DHHS, O’Neill said not only is Montgomery being charged with a class A felony charge of theft by deception, but she is also going to be facing an additional eight misdemeanor charges under RSA 167:17-b, I(a). That statute concerns obtaining public assistance and/or food stamps through fraud.
The stepmother of a missing child is asking the court for another bail hearing because her attorney says a state prosecutor told him the felony welfare fraud charge she is facing is unfounded, although she may be charged with a lesser offense.
Kayla Montgomery, 31, step-mother to a missing 7-year-old Manchester girl, was arrested Wednesday for welfare fraud accusing her of obtaining $2,450 in food stamps for the child when she wasn’t living with the family.
Harmony Montgomery, last seen more than two years ago when she was 5, endured abuse at the hands of her father, now under arrest for assaulting her in the summer of 2019 and concealing her whereabouts from both police and child protective services, according to court documents.