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She said in her report that Biery’s statement about a “Manhunt” and the officers’ behavior that followed “turned what should have been professional situation into a child’s game, effectively bringing disrepute to him and the Manchester Police Department,” Smith wrote.
Four officers involved in an August incident in which they told a homeless man they were going to give him a head start in a game of “manhunt” were disciplined for violating internal Manchester Police Department standards of operating procedures.
Kimberley Duguay says she thought everything was OK since MHRA was the one providing them with the listings. However, she said they were duped as well because all of the documents – the lease agreement, receipt for holding fee, etc. – appeared to be in order.
“We are going to hold the State of New Hampshire accountable for Harmony’s senseless and preventable death, shine a light on the systemic failures in her case to prevent future tragedies, give Harmony the voice that she never had, and get Harmony the justice that she so deeply deserves. Too many vulnerable children are being injured and killed while under the watchful eye of the State, it has been happening for way too long, and something needs to be done to stop it – enough is enough.”
A city resident, who criticized the Manchester Police Department after a June officer involved shooting that resulted in the death of a 56-year-old man, was fired from his job after police allegedly targeted his employer.
A city man, involved in a crash in May that caused the death of his passenger, was indicted on a negligent homicide charge.
The New Hampshire Supreme Court upheld the Manchester School District’s policy concerning transgender students, which includes referring to them by their requested names and pronouns and maintaining student privacy when appropriate.
Todd Gordon, a former Valley Street jail corrections officer accused of repeatedly punching a handcuffed inmate in the head because he didn’t like him, was sentenced to 30 days in jail after pleading guilty last May to two counts of enhanced simple assault.
The estranged wife of a Manchester Police Officer testified for nearly 2 ½ hours Monday about her husband assaulting her, once when she was 37 weeks pregnant and again, weeks after the birth of her daughter, which aggravated her recovery from a C-section.
Manchester police Sgt. Derek Feather was legally justified in shooting Waleed Al Tuwayni, then 19, who pointed a pellet gun resembling a Sig Sauer pistol at him in March of 2023, according to an investigative report released Thursday by New Hampshire Attorney John General Formella.
Defense attorneys for Alexandra Eckersley, found guilty of three charges related to the abandonment of her newborn infant in freezing temperatures in 2022, is asking a judge to set aside the verdict and, if not, to order a new trial.
A city man, under criminal indictment on charges he beat a former girlfriend because of her sexual orientation, is now facing civil charges for violating the New Hampshire Civil Rights Act.
Among this month’s grand jury indictments, a motorist accused of running down a pedestrian in a crosswalk is under indictment on manslaughter and negligent homicide charges.
Adam Montgomery, sentenced to 56-years to life for the murder of his 5-year-old daughter and related offenses is no longer detained in the New Hampshire State Prison for Men in Concord.
Alexandra Eckersley was found guilty of three charges related to the abandonment of her newborn infant but acquitted of two felony charges accusing her of second-degree assault.
After deliberating eight hours over two days, a Hillsborough County Superior Court North jury on Thursday left the courthouse without returning a verdict in the case of a woman accused of abandoning her premature newborn in freezing temperatures in December 2022.
Alexandra Eckersley testified Wednesday that when she left a makeshift tent after giving premature birth the day after Christmas 2022, she didn’t bring the infant with her because “I thought he was dead.”
After 2 ½ days of testimony, prosecutors rested their case against Alexandra Eckersley, the formerly homeless woman accused of abandoning her newborn son in 15-degree weather after giving birth to him in a makeshift tent in the woods.
