Posts by Pat Grossmith
The arrest of a city man in connection with a gun incident on Hanover Street last week led to a drug investigation, the arrest yesterday of six other people and the confiscation of more than $6,000 in cash along with crack cocaine and fentanyl.
A lawsuit filed by the daughter of a 90-year-old woman, who died in February of 2019, after her roommate at St. Teresa Rehabilitation and Nursing Center turned off her oxygen, was settled Tuesday in Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District.
Six people have suffered gunshot wounds in three separate shootings since Friday and police are investigating two additional incidents of shots being fired in the city in which no one was injured.
Assistant Hillsborough County Attorney Jonathan Cowal dismissed the “false public alarm” charge citing “prosecutor’s discretion” the same day as the plea. The court file notes that on July 13, 2021 – the same day – the grand jury issued a “no true bill,” that is, it declined to indict her.
Police are searching for a white “boxy” van, possibly a Dodge, in connection with a drive-by shooting on Interstate 293 South early Friday morning in which four people were shot. They also are investigating an incident in which a gunshot was fired in the area of the Jewel Music Venue, 61 Canal St., that resulted in a police chase that ended in a crash, with two men arrested and an officer injured.
The state is asking a judge to sentence former New Hampshire Senator Jeffrey Woodburn to 60 days in jail on domestic violence and criminal mischief convictions; he is asking for no jail time.
Detectives responded to the scene and obtained a search warrant for Demille’s apartment. Investigators located over 20 firearms to include pistols and rifles. Also located in the apartment was white supremacist-related materials. The investigation into Michael Demille’s intent and any potential hate crime is ongoing.
A Dover man, who alleged he was physically and sexually abused at the Youth Development Center in Manchester as a teen in the early 1990s, is now charged with four misdemeanors accusing him of filing false reports to law enforcement.
A man charged with manslaughter and nine other offenses in the death of a 57-year-old man pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of second-degree assault and received a suspended prison sentence.
A “beloved” victim-witness advocate and a “passionate” nurse were the victims of Sunday’s motorcycle crash on Wellington Road.
Jennifer Clow, 51, was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for the murder of her 72-year-old mother who she shot in the head two years ago as she slept in her bed inside her Goffstown home.
A Superior Court judge this week ruled in favor of a New Hampshire-based hotel group in its lawsuit against eight insurance companies concerning payment of tens of millions of dollars in financial losses because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Superior Court judge declared a mistrial in the case of a city man accused of pointing a loaded handgun at Black Lives Matter protesters last year after the court learned Tuesday that a juror, while in deliberations, used a cell phone to go online to look up the definition of “aggressor” and “provocation.”
A Manchester man has been sentenced for threatening Black Lives Matter activists with a gun last year.
A Manchester man, accused of sexually assaulting two teens who in 2019 walked away from a River Road treatment center, was acquitted on all five sexual assault charges but convicted of five other offenses.
A Superior Court judge, who imposed a 30-day sentence on a Black teen from Nashua on a misdemeanor riot charge connected to last year’s Black Lives Matters protests, has vacated the sentence and ordered a new sentencing hearing because a co-defendant was given no jail time when facing the same charges.
“Too many times, people are being released right back into society without any support system, hope or guidance,” says Anthony Harris who knows the drill all too well.
A man shot several times outside a popular downtown restaurant went there early Monday night to pick up his final check after being fired by Zabayullah Qahir, the same man now accused of shooting him.
Judge David Anderson, presiding Monday in Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District, set Padilla’s bail at $500 cash/surety with conditions including he turn over all weapons to Manchester police, stay 300 feet away from 239-241 Laurel St. and have no contact with Joshua John De Jesus.
One man is charged with threatening to kill an Amherst police officer while another from Manchester is accused of threatening to burn down an intimate partner’s home in the latest indictments handed up by a grand jury sitting in Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District and made public Thursday.