MANCHESTER, NH – A former charter school teacher is under indictment on sexual assault charges involving a former student that, on conviction, could send him to prison for up to 30 years.
Alexander Boston, 31, of 23 Bonney St., Pembroke, was indicted by a Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District grand jury on three counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault, position of authority, and one charge of witness tampering.
Boston taught at charter school in Pembroke when, police said, he engaged in a sexual relationship with a former student, who was 15-years-old.
According to the indictments, between May 22 and July 22, 2025, Boston engaged in sex acts with the former student in Goffstown. When he learned an investigation was underway, Boston allegedly tried to get the teen to withhold information.
James Drago, 49, of 37 Chestnut Hill Road, Amherst, was indicted on charges of manslaughter and two counts of reckless conduct. On March 20, 2025 on I-293 in Manchester, Drago is accused of accelerating his black Cadillac SRX into a red Ford F-150 operated by 72-year-old John Vangelder of Salem, causing his death. Vangelder was thrown from his truck.
Jared G Masseur, 41, of 32 Prescott St., Nashua, already under indictment on seven felony charges in connection with an incident in which Bedford police officer David Bendway-Fongemie was shot in the leg with his service-issued gun during a struggle, is now facing additional charges of first-degree assault; second-degree assault; resisting arrest/detention, serious bodily injury occurring, and willful interference with a police dog.
The incident happened at 12:53 a.m. on Jan. 4, 2025 when Bedford patrol officers observed a suspicious vehicle, occupied by a man and woman, parked in a lot adjacent to Country Inn & Suites on South River Road. The officers approached the vehicle and the driver, later identified as Masseur, fled the area while the woman remained in the vehicle and cooperated with officers.
When police caught up to Masseur and attempted to arrest him, he allegedly resisted and began to fight the officers. During the struggle with two officers, police said Masseur reached for Bendwy-Fongemie’s holstered Glock 9 mm gun which discharged striking the officer in the leg.
A K-9 officer used a remote device to release K-9 Odin from his cruiser and the police dog assisted in Masseur being taken into custody. Masseur was later treated at a local hospital for dog bites.
Bendway-Fongemie suffered a shoulder injury as well as the gunshot wound to the leg.
Last year, Masseur was indicted on charges of resisting arrest/detention; taking a firearm from a law enforcement officer; first-degree assault and second-degree assault for allegedly shooting the officer in the leg; felon in possession of a deadly weapon; maiming a police dog for purposely mistreating K-9 Odin when he put him in a headlock, and reckless conduct.
Masseur’s trial is set for the week of September 28.
The grand jury issued more than 300 indictments in February. Among them were:
- Pamela Abelson, 66, of Old Wilton Road, Mont Vernon, one charge of pattern of aggravated felonious sexual assault and three counts of felonious sexual assault. The charges date back to April 2014. According to the indictments, Abelson abused a 13-year-old boy and continued to sexually abuse him until he was 17-years-old in April 2019.
- Anthony Bayne, 32, of Penacook St., reckless conduct, deadly weapon. On Feb. 7, 2026, Bayne is accused of returning to the Rumor Tapas & Lounge, 1055 Elm St., with a 9 mm Sig Sauer firearm after having engaged in an argument with N.R. in the nightclub.
- Samuel Caraballo, 27, of Mason St., one count each of first-degree assault, second-degree assault, and reckless conduct, deadly weapon. On Nov. 8, 2025, Caraballo is accused of hitting T.C. in the head with a shovel.
- Allen Chandonnet, 54, of Dubuque St., two counts each of second-degree assault and reckless conduct, deadly weapon. On Oct. 29, 2025, Chandonnet is accused of firing a BB gun at two people, striking one in the face and the other, multiple times.
- Jeffrey Cincevich, 21, of Elm St., four counts of pattern of aggravated felonious sexual assault; four charges of aggravated felonious sexual assault and two counts of felonious sexual assault. Cincevich is accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old, beginning in April 2023 and continuing through April 2025.
- Nicole Collins, 34, of Chestnut St., Pittsfield, aggravated driving while intoxicated, serious bodily injury resulting. On Nov. 25, 2025 in Manchester, Collins is accused of driving a motor vehicle on Webster Street while intoxicated causing a car accident that seriously injured K.S.
- Clay Dow, 38, and Karen Dow, 35, both of North Barnstead Road, Center Barnstead, were each indicted on theft by unauthorized taking and deceptive forestry business practices. Between April 28 and May 28, 2022, the Dows are accused of exercising unauthorized control over more than $1,500 belonging to P.P. and S.P. The deceptive forestry business practices charge alleges they did not pay more than $1,000 to owners of timber delivered to sawmills.
- Douglas Frechette, 51, of School St., Lempster, pattern of aggravated felonious sexual assault; five counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault, and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child. The alleged assaults took place in Weare, date back to 2014 and involve a child under the age of 13.
- Brooke Friar, 18, of Maple St., two counts of domestic violence, second-degree assault. On Nov. 26, 2025, Friar is accused of taking a cane from her father and hitting him with it, and also throwing a knife at him, hitting him in his left hand.
- Alexander Haggie, 27, of Winter St., one count of attempted aggravated felonious sexual assault; one charge of aggravated felonious sexual assault, and five counts pattern of aggravated felonious sexual assault. According to the indictments, the assaults involved a child under the age of 13 with the abuse beginning in November 2019 and continuing through November 2024.
- Leah McCabe, 18, of Agnes St., aggravated driving while intoxicated; aggravated driving while intoxicated, serious bodily injury occurring; two counts of conduct after an accident, and witness tampering. On April 19, 2025, McCabe is accused of driving drunk on Valley Street and hitting a pedestrian, identified in the indictments by the initials “S.A.” The witness tampering charge accuses McCabe of sending a text to Lassandra Dias that said “I would lie and say you hit an animal and spun out” in an attempt to get Dias to withhold information from police.
- Logan Mills, 21, of Glen Ridge Way, Gilford, five counts of possession of child sexual abuse images on June 18, 2025 in Hillsboro.
- Brian Nickerson, 58, of Massabesic St., three counts of attempted murder; two counts of second-degree assault; five counts of attempted first-degree assault; criminal threatening with a deadly weapon. On Sept. 17, 2025, Nickerson is accused of attempting to murder his intimate partner, L.A., 55, when he choked her; hit her in the head with a chair, which left her bleeding and unconscious, and throwing a knife at her, threatening, “you think you’ll kill me? I’ll kill you!”
- Amauris Rosario Frias, 31, of Reading, Pa., aggravated felonious sexual assault. On Jan. 27, 2025 in Manchester, Rosario Frias is accused of engaging in sex with L.R. by overcoming L.R. through physical force.
- William Soares, 30, of Eaton St., aggravated felonious sexual assault – domestic violence; attempted aggravated felonious sexual assault – domestic violence; second-degree assault. On Dec. 4, 2025 in Bedford, Soares is accused of engaging in sex with L.H., his intimate partner, who did not consent to the act and forcing L.H.’s head towards his groin. He is also accused of choking L.H.
- Alejandro Andres Vargas, 27, of Lowell, Mass., reckless conduct, conduct after an accident and second-degree assault. On Nov. 25, 2025, Vargas is accused of driving recklessly and crashing a New Hampshire State Police cruiser, injuring Trooper Taylor who suffered a cut to the forehead. He then allegedly fled the scene.