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• Neighbors miss promised officer

  BY DAN O'BRIEN Neighbors of a convicted child rapist whose house is within feet of a school bus stop say their concerns are falling on deaf ears. Gayle Gillespie says there was no police officer patrolling the bus stop on Monday, Sept. 28 -- something Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:40 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, schools, Police, Crime, sex offenders

• Rapist prompts notification bill

  BY DAN O'BRIEN State Rep. David Boutin has filed legislation at the State House that would allow police departments more freedom to notify residents when convicted sex offenders move to town. Boutin filed the bill on Thursday, Sept. 24, in response Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:34 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Crime, sex offenders, politics

• Woman says she was raped at motel

  BY JENNIFER McDOWELL Hooksett police picked up a registered sex offender for a reported sexual assault at a local motel on Monday, Nov. 5. Eric Searles, 45, was arrested and charged with aggravated felonious sexual assault after police responded to a Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:50 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Police, Crime, sex offenders

• Masked men invade home

  BY JENN McDOWELL Robert Cyra of Hooksett, 74, said if his wolf-husky mix Malibu were still alive, the three masked men who entered his home in the wee hours of Saturday morning, Oct. 27, and robbed him of thousands in cash, jewelry and his 2004 Ford Explorer Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 12:12 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Police, Crime, robbery

• Cooper sentence reduced

  BY RYAN O'CONNOR Melanie Cooper will only serve half of her original sentence. After Cooper pleaded guilty to hindering apprehension, a felony charge, in the investigation of Eric Windhurst’s 1985 murder of her stepfather, Danny Paquette of Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007 3:38 PM by Hooksett Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Hopkinton, Crime, court

• Death after grad – Hooksett man found beaten badly after Central ceremony

  BY SUSAN WARE A brutal dusk assault on Thursday, June 14, left a 20-year-old Hooksett man fighting for his life. The next day he succumbed to the injuries from the beating while being treated at Massachusetts General Hospital. According to Senior Assistant Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 12:39 PM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Manchester, Police, Crime

• Crime forces increase in budget, says chief

  BY NICHOLAS BROWN Citing more numerous and complex crimes, many committed by nonresidents of Hooksett, police officials said they couldn’t comply with the Hooksett Town Council’s request to bring forth a zero-dollar-increase budget. “It’s Read More... Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 9:38 AM by Hooksett Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Hooksett, Police, Crime