Man Who Went On Tewksbury, Reading Crime Spree Punched Guard, Inmate At N.H. Jail

BRENTWOOD, NH -- Michael Munroe, the 34-year-old man whose 2016 crime spree included a carjacking in Tewksbury and Reading, as well as two bank robberies in New Hampshire, was indicted on felony charges of two counts of assault by prisoner for his role in a May incident while he was being held at Rockingham County Jail. Munroe allegedly punched another inmate, fracturing his eye socket, then elbowed a correctional officer. The new charges were handed down by a grand jury earlier this month and carry 7 1/2 to 15 years in prison for the Class A felony and 3 1/2 to 7 years for the Class B felony.

David Cosentino, the jail’s assistant superintendent, verified the new charges to Seacoastonline.com, which first reported the story. As part of a June plea agreement, Munroe pleaded guilty to the bank robbery charges and admitted to the Massachusetts carjacking, an assault in Epping and car thefts in Manchester and Epping, N.H. during the two weeks he was at large.

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Munroe carjacked a car driven by a Tewksbury woman on March 30, 2016 in the Dress Barn parking lot, and tried to do the same one day later in Reading. On April 1 he robbed the Granite State Credit Union in Seabrook. Four days before that, he robbed a Northway Bank in Ossipee. During the Seabrook robbery a note he slipped to the teller said he was armed and "I'm a drug addict."

Munroe, of Raymond, N.H., was arrested in Hancock, New Hampshire with Rebecca Norton, 29, of Raymond, N.H. He is scheduled to be sentenced on November 7.

For more on this story, see Seacoastonline.com

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