Byline: U.S. Attorney's Office

A Manchester woman was arrested on an indictment charging her with the distribution of animal crush videos, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces. 

Pratt cashed unauthorized checks to herself and entered them as payments to legitimate vendors in the company’s accounting system. Pratt also used the company’s credit cards to make over 1,000 unauthorized personal purchases. The fraudulent purchases included over $5,600 to purchase NFL tickets for Tom Brady’s return to Gillette stadium in 2021 and over $50,000 on Amazon purchases on items including a hot tub. Pratt also used the stolen money on things like plane tickets and miscellaneous herbs and spices.

Stephanie Alicea was the founder of the Capital City Public Charter School, which offered classes to several dozen students during the 2018-19 and 2019-20 school years. Alicea oversaw the school’s finances and day-to-day operations.  Capital City received federal charter school grant funds, which were to be used solely for education-related expenses.

At the time of his arrest, Paul Baird was employed as a bus driver by the Student Transportation of America, which is a school transportation company that services the Contoocook Valley (ConVal) School District.

A Manchester man pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to producing visual depictions of four different minor survivors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young announces.

A Franklin man has been indicted for threatening to kill a United States Senator.

Kyle Morris kept the machine guns in a locked gun room in his home.  This locked room also contained over 20 other firearms and various Nazi paraphernalia, including a Nazi uniform, two Nazi flags, and a framed photo of Adolf Hitler.

A Maine man has been federally charged in connection with posting a video on SnapChat that threatened  Portsmouth High School on April 12, 2023.

Brian Rutherford, 25, of Bedford, NH, pleaded guilty March 3 to one special felony count of conspiracy to sell fentanyl (subsequent offense), five counts of felon in possession of a firearm, and six counts of witness tampering and was sentenced by the Hillsborough County Superior Court (Northern District) to a total of 15 ½ to 31 years stand committed in the New Hampshire State Prison.

Eric Mohan, 48, of Manchester, was sentenced today to 57 months in federal prison for a string of bank robberies in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced.

Police have made arrest in Wednesday’s bank robbery.

In pleading guilty, Hatch admitted that on July 25, 2017, he used his cellular telephone to arrange to pick up fentanyl from the Massachusetts-based trafficker on behalf of the Manchester-based trafficker. 

A bank teller in Salem, NH, recognized Deandray Buckley, from internal bank alerts, which led to his arrest.