Crime & Safety
Burglary Suspect Arrested On Warrants
Tristan Roukey was picked up in Bedford yesterday during a warrant arrest. He has been arrested numerous times in Concord.

BEDFORD, NH — A local man with a string of arrests in recent years was arrested again yesterday on a warrant in Bedford, according to reports online. Tristan Roukey was arrested after Bedford Police were checking on subjects in the area of Carrabas. One man came back with an active Rockingham County warrant for burglary and another warrant on domestic charges, according to the InfoNH Facebook site.
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The man – Roukey – allegedly fled the scene and ran to an area along Route 101. (For more information on this and other neighborhood stories, subscribe to New Hampshire Patch sites to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts.)
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A perimeter was sent along with the assistance of Hillsborough County Sheriffs and a New Hampshire State Police K-9 Unit. The man was located in the woods outside of an office complex on South River Road.
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Roukey allegedly became combative and refused to get into the cruiser and reportedly requested that police shoot him, according to the report. After allegedly struggling a bit longer, he was placed inside of a police cruiser.
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Roukey, according to posts on Patch, has a long criminal history in recent years.
In March of last year, he was arrested on felony theft of services. At the same time, he was allegedly involved in drug dealing incidents in Concord and was indicted earlier this year on numerous counts of dealing heroin and fentanyl. In October 2016, he was arrested on drug dealing charges in Concord, including fentanyl, heroin, and meth.
Previously, he was convicted on a theft charge in Rockingham County in 2015, and allegedly violated his probation. He was convicted on a drug dealing charge in June 2009. In February of this year, he was arrested for disorderly conduct after an alleged incident at the Hooksett welcome center on I-93. He was also arrested on a resisting charge after being Tased at a Concord home in February, refusing to be arrested on warrants out of Merrimack County.
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