Stolen Vehicle Stop Londonderry, NH

Описание: LONDONDERRY, NH - Londonderry Police responded to a pickup truck abandoned in a driveway. Police quickly located the pickup truck that had been reported stolen out of Manchester. The pickup which sustained damage from an apparent accident was unoccupied, and officers searched the area for people that reportedly fled from the pickup.

A short time later a red Scion was stolen from Londonderry, and an Australian Shepard was in the car when it was stolen. Through an investigation, it was determined the vehicle was taken by a black male and a white female.

Londonderry Police learned that the owner of the Scion had left her cell phone in the vehicle and began to track the cell phone. The vehicle showed that it had been driven to Manchester and was in the area of Goffs Falls Road, and then on South Willow Street.

Londonderry Police notified Manchester Police and Londonderry Police continued to track the phone and saw that the vehicle was headed onto 293 South and began to follow it and the vehicle traveled South onto I-93.

Police did a high-risk stop on I-93 just North of Exit 4, officers surrounded the car with weapons drawn and a police K9. The driver of the car was ordered out of the car, and the car was searched for other people.

Calvin Atwood, 48 listed as living at the Families In Transition Shelter at 199 Manchester Street was removed from the vehicle and placed into custody. Drugs and drug paraphernalia were found around the driver's seat of the car. The vehicle was impounded and towed to the Londonderry Police Department for further search of the vehicle.

The Australian Shepard belonging to the victim appeared uninjured and after further evaluation at the police station, it was released to the owner.

Atwood is charged with receiving stolen property with over $1,501 in value, transport of drugs in a motor vehicle, possession of schedule 1 controlled drugs, and operating without a valid license.

Court records indicate that Atwood has 3 arrests in 2021 including two involving felon-in-possession charges, and a drug-related charge. In February this year, he plead guilty to a drug possession charge and was sentenced to 9 months in Hillsborough County Corrections, all were suspended for one year. He also was fined $434 which was suspended for 2 years.

Atwood washed overnight at the Rockingham County Jail and was scheduled to be arraigned in Rockingham County Court Tuesday morning.

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