By Dan O’BrienThe Hooksett Police Department, coping with personnel disputes and disciplinary action, spent more than $175,000 in legal fees in fiscal 2009, substantially more than what was spent in some similar-sized communities. “We continue, like other departments, to hold our people accountable,” Chief Stephen Agrafiotis ...

Victoria Voydatch, 29, was arrested Nov. 8 and charged with an Oct. 5 burglary on Jewett Road in Dunbarton, in which numerous firearms, cash and collectibles were stolen. Voydatch was arraigned in Concord District Court on Nov. 9 and is being held at the Merrimack County House of Corrections on $5,000 cash bail. Voydatch is also being held on ...

Weare police arrested Stephen Corey, 36, of 17 Woodland Drive, Weare, on Monday, Nov. 16. Corey was charged with two counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault, reckless conduct, criminal threatening and simple assault. Weare police conducted an investigation over the weeend involving alleged domestic abuse by Corey over a four-month period ...

Donald Thomson, the man who served as the town’s police chief from 1974 to 1988, has died of prostate cancer. He was 79. Thomson served the department during a time when there were no full-time officers, said his son, Wayne Thomson, 55, of Weare. Donald Thomson also served as the town treasurer for 35 years and worked as an electrical ...

Bedford police officers responded to a call about a male shoplifter just before 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 4, at Hannaford’s Supermarket in Colby Court, Bedford. Hannaford reported the subject fled the area when he was confronted by the store’s loss prevention officer. The subject was described as in his 40s wearing white slacks and a ...

BY HOLLY DAVISBedford detectives arrested Dennis Buchenauer, 51, of Manchester, in connection with a complaint made by a 16- year-old female Bedford High School Student last week. Police received the report just before 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3. The student reported that she was approached by an unidentified subject as she was leaving the ...

By Dan O’Brien Holding signs that read, “Support SRO Defina” and “Agrafiotis is our dirty laundry,” a group of a dozen people held a protest against the town’s police chief outside the Wednesday, Nov. 4, Town Council meeting. The group set up a clothes line that held protest signs with clothes pins while one ...

Hello, watchful neighbors!  This was just released by Chief Lane: “Good morning, The Pembroke Police Department will hold aNeighborhood Watch, crime prevention seminar, at the Public Safety Center onTuesday, November 17th at 6:30 P.M.  The presentation will include areview of some methods you can use to spot suspicious ...

  Well, it’s been a busy few days in bloggery thanks to the many criminals who choose to call the ‘bronx home:  Yet another APB, folks!   This time we have an attempted break-in at the Emerson Mills Condominium building on Main Street Scumcook.  Apparently, someone attempted to pry open the window of a ...

By Dan O’Brien Chrissy Curran was surprised, but not overly shocked, when someone broke into her unlocked Whitehall Terrace home in June. It was probably some mischievous kids, she thought. Only an iPod and a plastic container of loose change were stolen. “It was small and it seemed random,” Curran said. But then it happened ...