Posts by Pat Grossmith
Two teenagers allegedly road racing last November prior to a five-vehicle crash resulting in the death of a 53-year-old man, are facing negligent homicide and manslaughter charges.
A $2,500 reward is being offered for information leading to the identity of the person who last month disposed of a newborn infant in Pine Island Pond.
A city man faces the possibility of 45 years to life in prison after he pleaded guilty Tuesday to murdering his 7-year-old son who suffered burns over 15 percent of his body, had a fractured skull, was whipped with a cord about his body and burned with a hot pan.
The death of a newborn baby girl, whose body was recovered from Pine Island Pond Thursday afternoon, has been ruled suspicious, according to police.
Ailadi Abreu, the Derry woman accused of causing the death of her fiancé in a high-speed crash three years ago at a Granite Street intersection, was convicted Wednesday of negligent homicide.
A fatal crash at the intersection of Granite Street and the I-293 Interstate off-ramp happened because the driver, Ali Abreu, was enraged after an argument with her fiancé, who died in the collision, according to prosecutors, or because the 2012 Acura she bought weeks earlier from a “shady dealership” malfunctioned, as the defense contends.
Enraged after an argument with Michael Shattuck over her infidelity, Ailadi Abreu drove her car at 70 mph through a Granite Street intersection, colliding head-on with another car, killing Shattuck, her passenger, according to a prosecutor.
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.
Emmanuel Sayle, one of two men who opened fire on people attending a 2023 graduation party, wounding four, was sentenced Thursday to 20-to-60-years in the New Hampshire State Prison.
A Superior Court judge denied a prosecutor’s request that bail be revoked for Kyle Jacob Bisson, the city man accused of stabbing another man nine times outside an Elm Street market.
Kyle Jacob Bisson, the city man released on bail after being accused of repeatedly stabbing a man in an argument, told police he was acting in self-defense after the other man punched him in the face and tackled him to the ground.
Executive Councilor John Stephen is asking Chief Justice Gordon J. MacDonald to consider removing a recently appointed magistrate who released a man, charged with repeatedly stabbing another man, on personal recognizance bail.
A city woman is facing the possibility of life in prison after being indicted in connection with an overdose death in December 2023.
Marc Vilgrain, 32, of 32 Cocheco Ave., Rochester, pleaded guilty in Hillsborough County Superior Court North to being in possession of more than an ounce of cocaine, with intent to distribute, and possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. He pled true to allegations the drug charges violated his condition of probation.
An Allenstown man was found guilty of first-degree assault in the beating of a man outside a downtown bar in September 2023.
A former Youth Development Center staffer, convicted in January of three counts of rape involving two teen boys court-ordered to the juvenile detention facility, was sentenced Thursday to 30 to 60 years in the New Hampshire State Prison.
Judge N. William Delker, in sentencing former Youth Development Center employee Bradley Asbury to 20-to-40-years in prison, said the former supervisor used his power to violate a 14-year-old boy in the “most violent and humiliating way possible.”
Four years before Bradley Asbury held down a 14-year-old boy with the help of a co-worker at the Youth Development Center while two other workers raped the teen, he was fired from a similar job at a Concord facility for threatening the safety of residents among other things, according to documents made public this week.
A Superior Court judge declared a mistrial late Wednesday afternoon in the case of Stephen Murphy, the former Youth Development Center youth counselor accused of raping a 14-year-old boy in 1998, after a jury deadlocked, unable to reach a verdict.
