Drug Convict Placed On Walkaway Status By NH DOC

MANCHESTER, NH — The New Hampshire Department of Corrections is asking for the public’s help locating an inmate at the Calumet Transitional Housing Unit who was placed on walkaway status this morning. Ricky Edward Holloway, 26, of no permanent address but previously of both Harlem and Queens, NY, left the housing unit at 8 p.m. on Aug. 3, 2017, but allegedly failed to show up to work. He was placed on walkaway status at around 12:30 a.m. today, according to Jeffrey Lyons, the public information officer for the NH DOC.

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Holloway is African-American, 6 feet, 2 inches tall, and weighs around 230 lbs. He has black hair and brown eyes and a tattoo on his face. (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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Holloway was convicted on drug charges in Hillsborough County Superior Court and was to serve two concurrent 1- to 2-year sentences. He received 198 days of time served at the time of sentencing. He began his sentencing on Feb. 9, and was eligible for parole last month with a maximum release date of July 25, 2018.

The New Hampshire Department of Corrections and the New Hampshire State Police are investigating. Anyone with information on his whereabouts should contact the New Hampshire State Police or a local law enforcement agency.

Walking away from a correctional facility can result in a charge of Escape that is a Class B felony punishable by 3.5- to 7-years in prison, according to Lyons.

According to posts on Patch, Holloway was arrested in Greenwich, CT, in June 2015, on a parole violation out of New York City as well as criminal impersonation and forgery after he was found walking along Merritt Parkway and he reportedly gave police two different names. After being fingerprinted, they found out who he was, according to the report. A little more than a year later, he was arrested for selling crack cocaine in Nashua. Police stated at the time that he had 10 grams of the drug in his possession.