Posts by Pat Grossmith
A city man convicted of witness tampering and buying alcohol for minors – three teenage girls who left a drug treatment program in search of alcohol in 2019 – is in the New Hampshire State Prison after being sentenced last week to 8 ½ to 13 years.
A 19-month-old boy is learning how to walk again after drinking his mother’s methadone last July, resulting in his hospitalization for 1-½ weeks in the intensive care unit at Boston Children’s Hospital, according to court documents.
Four people – three men and a teen – are now under arrest in connection with last week’s brawl inside the Red Arrow Diner on Lowell Street.
A New Jersey man, accused of killing two men Saturday at a Bedford hotel, waived arraignment Monday in Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District on multiple felony charges, including two counts of second-degree murder.
A grand jury, meeting in Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District, handed up 232 indictments in August, many of them accusing men of sexual assaults or possessing graphic images or videos depicting child sexual abuse.
HOPE for New Hampshire Recovery, is taking on a juggernaut in suing Facebook, accusing the social media platform of violating the state’s Consumer Protection and Unfair Business Practices law.
A five-sentence pitch to recruit police officers, posted Tuesday on the Manchester Police Department’s Facebook page, was removed hours later by the police chief after it caused a brouhaha on social “qualified media because it described “qualified immunity” a unique benefit offered by the department.
New Hampshire remains among the top five states with the highest rate of opioid-involved deaths, according to the National Institutes of Health. Through July 14, 2021, there have been 118 confirmed drug deaths, with another 96 pending toxicology. The vast majority – 93 – of the confirmed deaths involved fentanyl alone or fentanyl combined with other drugs, according to the Office of Chief Medical Examiner.
Alderman-at-Large Joe Levasseur is suing the Manchester police Department for not giving him a copy of a video recording of an interview with a parking enforcement officer, with whom Levasseur had a dispute last January, because it was recorded on an officer’s body-worn camera, which the city maintains is exempt under the Right-to-Know law.
A Superior Court judge rejected a negotiated plea that called for no jail time for a man accused of posting nude photos of his former roommate, taken in a hack, to the internet.