Posts by Pat Grossmith
A $12,250 reward is being offered for information leading to the whereabouts of a 7-year-old child who police say was last seen in October 2019.
Khamis was sentenced Wednesday in Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District after he pleaded guilty to two counts each of second-degree assault and reckless conduct.
The covid outbreak at the Valley Street jail, which began in September, is under control with no cases among staff and only two infections in the 267 inmates housed there as of Monday, according to Willie Scurry, jail superintendent.
A former Valley Street correctional officer is facing simple assault charges for punching an inmate in the face and, once the man was down, striking him again in the face, according to three misdemeanor charges issued by a grand jury.
A Hooksett man pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge alleging he failed to put a “do not operate” tag on a gas furnace he had worked on in a New Boston home which later exploded and erupted in flames, killing a Nashua man.
Systemic problems involving missed deadlines, complying with rules required of prosecutors statewide and court orders have resulted in a Superior Court judge sanctioning the office of Hillsborough County Attorney John Coughlin.
A man, who found his “uncle” molesting a four-year-old girl, pushed him down a flight of stairs and, in a subsequent tussle, stomped his leg repeatedly, breaking it according to court documents and court statements.
A judge declared a mistrial in the case of Sarah Lynch, accused of staging a crime scene and reporting a fake burglary, after a jury deadlocked Friday 7 to 5 in favor of acquitting her.
A man protesting a mobile COVID-19 vaccine clinic Thursday at the Currier Art Museum was arrested after police said he continued to drive his Jeep in circles in the parking lot as families waited for their jabs.
A jury is deciding whether Sarah Lynch staged a burglary at her North End home in 2019, as prosecutors maintain, or whether she was attacked and police botched the investigation by failing to collect all the evidence, dust for fingerprints or follow through on leads, as the defense contends.
A mother and her boyfriend were indicted on assault charges after her toddler son ingested methadone and went into cardiac arrest, while another man is facing an assault charge for giving a 3-year-old a marijuana-laced brownie causing the child to suffer respiratory failure.
Defense attorney Leslie Gill said police can’t prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt because they didn’t do a complete investigation.
“Cases are staying open at the same time that more cases are coming in. Think of it as a faucet. The faucet never turned off during COVID. Arrests kept happening and new cases were added to the docket. The combination of those two things made case numbers explode.”
Manchester’s soccer community and others are grieving the loss of Thamba Mbungu, an extremely talented player described as an amazing person with a beautiful soul, found dead Sunday morning in Derryfield Park.
The mother of a missing 5-year-old Merrimack boy is being held without bail after her arraignment Wednesday on charges of endangering the welfare of a child and witness tampering.
Law enforcement in the Bronx, N.Y., arrested a New Hampshire couple in connection with a missing 5-year-old child from Merrimack.
A 25-year-old man is facing a negligent homicide charge in the bathtub drowning death of a child that occurred two years ago somewhere in Hillsborough County.
The city is paying a Manchester man $20,000 to settle a lawsuit against police officers who twisted his arm and seized his cell phone containing a recording of a brawl two years ago outside a 7-Eleven.
Brandon Gomez accused a 57-year-old homeless man of stealing his cell phone when he repeatedly pummeled him with his fists, knocking him to the ground in Victory Park, according to court papers.
Dispatchers answering calls – an average of 261 per day, 70,213 so far this year — must obtain as much detailed information as possible from the caller: Name, location, what happened, anyone hurt, is a weapon involved. While doing that, the dispatcher is simultaneously researching the call itself – have police been to that location before, were there any threats and assessing the danger level to both the citizen and police. The information is needed to ensure both the safety of the caller and the officer.