BY GRETA CUYLERPolice will not charge the father who said he wished he’d tied a rope around his daughter’s boyfriend’s neck and dragged him behind his car. It was one week ago that Gilberto Soto, 38, of Weare, appeared on ABC’s “20/20” and said he wished he’d done more than beat up then-17-year-old Damon ...

BY JENN McDOWELLMark Yphantis said he is trying to move on with his life after charges of conspiring to assault a Weare police officer – and accepting $700 to do it – and being a felon in possession of a deadly weapon were dropped at a probable cause hearing on Monday, March 11. “We did a further investigation, which revealed ...

BY GRETA CUYLERThe New Hampshire high school student arrested after having sex with his girlfriend says he never knew he was breaking the law. “I didn’t know there was a certain age you had to be to have sex,” said 18-year-old Damon Hadley of Henniker. “I thought if I told the truth, it’d all just go ...

By Michelle Kim   WEARE – The Weare man who attacked the 17-year-old boyfriend of his 15-year-old daughter pleaded no contest to a Class A misdemeanor assault and received a suspended sentence of one year in jail. The 38-year-old Weare man, dressed in a suit, appeared at the Dec. 27 plea hearing at Goffstown District Court to enter a ...

BY MICHELLE KIM The man who attacked the 17-year-old boyfriend of his 15-year-old daughter after learning the two had sex was arraigned and charged with a simple assault, Class B felony, in Goffstown District Court Tuesday, Oct. 16. The boyfriend was charged as an adult with a Class A misdemeanor on Oct. 9, according to Weare police. The ...

BY STEVEN ANDREWS A 17-year-old student was attacked by his 15-year -old girlfriend’s father at John Stark High School as school let out after the man learned the pair had sex earlier in the day, according to police. The Monday, Sept. 10, incident left the boy bruised and in need of stitches, while the father, from Weare, was charged with ...