Theft, Drug, Habitual Offender Fugitive Caught: Report

CONCORD, NH — U.S. Marshals and the Nashua Police Department’s Special Reaction Team arrested a New Hampshire fugitive wanted on a number of charges after a traffic stop in the Gate City.

Scott Collier, 34, of an unknown address, was arrested at the intersection of Elm and West Otterson streets after a marshal spotted him as a passenger in a vehicle.

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According to Deputy Jeffrey White, marshals were assigned to find Collier earlier this month on multiple warrants including failure to appear on a drug charge and being a habitual offender out of Rockingham County, failure to appear on multiple counts of theft by unlawful taking issued out of Hillsborough County, and a warrant issued by the Nashua Police Department for an another charge of theft by unlawful taking.

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Marshals began looking for Collier both in New Hampshire and beyond and found that he had been arrested in May in South Carolina. During that arrest, he was allegedly found to be in possession of firearms.

“Based on these firearms and information that investigators had heard that Collier would not go back to jail, he was considered to be armed and dangerous,” White noted. “After an intensive investigation by the U.S. Marshals in South Carolina and throughout Nashua and Hudson, Collier was spotted by investigators as a passenger in a car this afternoon.”

Collier was arrested without incident and is being held.

White said several member agencies from the New Hampshire Joint Fugitive Task Force assisted in the investigation and safe arrest of Collier, including law enforcement officers from the U.S. Marshal’s Office (NH & SC), Rockingham, Hillsborough, Strafford, and Belknap County Sheriff's Offices, and officers from both the Hudson and Nashua Police Departments.

U.S. Marshal David Cargill, Jr. said in a statement, “The ability to be a fugitive on the run is greatly hampered, when the network of experienced investigators spans across the country. This is what the US Marshals Fugitive Task Forces are all about; working together to quickly and safely arrest fugitives.”

According to reports on Patch, Collier was indicted last hear for allegedly stealing stealing two Tag Hauer watches from Hannoush Jewelers in Nashua, and a gold chain from Schnayder Jewelry in Nashua in October 2014. He was also arrested by Rockingham Sheriffs on a judge’s order to arrest for failure to appear on an operating while being a habitual offender. In March, according to the Eagle-Tribune, he was arrested in Salem on willful concealment, two prior convictions, and possession of heroin/crack charges.