3 Arrested After Alleged Kidnapping Incident

MANCHESTER, NH — Manchester Police have arrested three people this morning after a reported home invasion and kidnapping incident on Union Street this weekend, according to police. Ernesto Mateo, 28, Holly Crawford, 33, upper left, and Jada Johnson, 21, all of Manchester, were arrested on Jan. 29, 2018, on kidnapping charges. At just before 5:30 a.m. this morning, police were sent to the location for a report of a loud noise complaint inside a building, according to Lt. Brian O’Keefe of the Manchester Police Department.

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“A man answered the door but the officers soon realized something was amiss when they observed a distressed female inside of the apartment,” O’Keefe stated. “The officers spoke with the 49 year-old victim and three other individuals inside of the apartment.”

The individuals allegedly held the woman against her will inside her own apartment the entire weekend and had reportedly physically assaulted her, O’Keefe alleged. The victim was “familiar” with all three of them. The victim was treated and released from an area hospital.

Johnson allegedly gave police a fake name which caused police to release a correction earlier today.

Additional charges are expected pending the completion of the investigation.

Mateo, according to reports on Patch, is no stranger to police. In September 2014, he was arrested in Amherst on a driving after suspension charge. Back in July 2016, he was arrested in Salem for reportedly stealing sunglasses at the Mall at Rockingham Park. A month later, he was arrested by Rockingham County Sheriffs on two counts of harassment and indecent exposure and lewdness charges. Last January, he was arrested by sheriffs for failure to appear at the arraignment of an original charge of interference with fire apparatus. Mateo has also been arrested in Londonderry and Salem on warrants.

Johnson, according to a report out of Hillsborough County Superior Court-South, was indicted on a felony narcotics charge at 17 after an arrest in September 2014, in Merrimack. In March 2016, she was arrested for March 18, 2016, for felony forgery and theft by deception from incidents at Walmart on Loudon Road in Concord in November 2015.

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