Facebook Marketplace Cleaning Services Hire Or Sex Sale Gone Bad Leads To Stabbing In Manchester

MANCHESTER, NH — A man and a woman are facing several felony charges after being accused of stabbing a man and stealing his car on Sunday during an apparent prostitution buy or cleaning services hire gone bad, according to court documents.

Frank Miller, 40, of Manchester, was arrested on Feb. 15 on first-degree assault, felon in possession of a dangerous weapon, kidnapping, criminal threatening-deadly weapon, criminal restraint, simple assault, and resisting arrest. Kendra Gokey, 20, a homeless woman now located in Manchester, was also charged with first-degree assault, criminal restraint, and prostitution.

According to police, around 8:30 a.m., police and fire and rescue teams were sent to Rimmon Street for a report of a stabbing. When they arrived, the first arriving officer spoke to the victim, a man, who said he had gone to the apartment “after an interaction with someone on an online marketplace,” Heather Hamel, the public information officer for the Manchester police, said. When the victim arrived, he encountered three people, and was assaulted, threatened, and held against his will, she said.

“During the altercation,” Hamel said, “(the victim) was stabbed and the suspects stole his car.”

Police stopped the car later on Main Street near Conant Street and arrested Miller and Gokey.

According to an affidavit, the first arriving officer arrived in the area of the incident and encountered the victim, who was inside the car of a witness who stopped to assist him. The witness told the officer they stopped when they saw the victim bleeding and spoke to the man. The man said he had been stabbed and the suspects stole his car. The witness reported seeing three or four people in the area when they arrived at the scene.

The officer spoke to the victim and saw a laceration on the man’s right wrist as well as several small cuts, swelling, and redness of his left eye. The victim told the officer two women and a man attacked him after he made contact with one of the women on Facebook Marketplace “in regards to ‘services’,” the officer wrote in an affidavit. The officer asked about the “services” conversation and the victim said he owned a cleaning business. He claimed to have received several messages and calls from a woman, later identified as Gokey, that morning, requesting that he come to the apartment, the officer wrote.

The victim drove to the apartment and met with Gokey, the report stated, and accused her of talking to him about sexual services and that he needed to pay her. The victim then wrote Gokey a $200 check, she ordered him to take off his clothes, and then, a man and another woman entered the home, the report stated.

The man was later identified in the affidavit as Miller, her fiancée.

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An argument ensued over money and the victim told Gokey he could not pay her more, the affidavit said. The victim then accused Miller of attacking him, saying if he did not do what they told him to do, he was going to “die today.” The victim was struck in the face with an unknown object and with Miller’s fists, the report said.

Miller, Gokey, and the second woman attempted to tie up the victim, but he struggled to keep this from happening, the report said. Miller began threatening him with a long, gold knife, while also demanding $10,000 or he was going to kill the victim and his family, the affidavit said.

The victim told Miller, Gokey, and the other woman they could take his car if they would leave him alone, and the officer radioed others about the missing car, a red Saturn Ion, the report said.

A few minutes later, the vehicle was found on Main Street near Catholic Medical Center.

The driver, the second woman, Miller, and Gokey were ordered out of the vehicle, the report said. During questioning, police accused Miller of disobeying several commands, he was taken to the ground, handcuffed, and placed in a cruiser. The reporting officer accused Miller of being in possession of a knife with a gold and black handle, matching the description by the victim.

Gokey, who was bleeding due to a cut on her left hand, was taken to Elliot Hospital by EMTs.

During an interview with a detective, she claimed to have been sexually assaulted, a report stated.

Gokey, the affidavit said, admitted she was at the apartment to “sell herself” to a man she did not know but called a “Spanish guy” identified as the victim. She claimed Miller was her pimp, the report stated. Gokey said she chatted with the victim on Facebook Messenger and he agreed to meet for $350, an affidavit said.

During the encounter, Gokey claimed the victim “ultimately did not have any money to pay (her) for the sex,” the report stated. She “collapsed to the ground” because she wanted the encounter to end, the detective wrote, but the man advanced toward her. She then left the room, took out her knife and began swinging her arms at the victim, the affidavit said.

“I don’t think I stabbed him,” Gokey was accused of saying in the report.

Gokey began screaming for Miller, he arrived, and held the victim in the room for about an hour due to his lack of payment, the affidavit said. She said the victim later was able to escape and flee, the report stated.

The victim was taken to Catholic Medical Center, interviewed later by a detective, and reiterated the same information they had given to the officer, according to an affidavit.

Both Miller and Gokey were arraigned by video and held without bail on Feb. 17. They have probable cause hearings booked for Feb. 25.

Miller, originally from Massachusetts, was charged with possessing heroin, felon in possession, handguns-armed career criminal, acts prohibited, and falsifying physical evidence in Salem in August 2017. He pleaded guilty to the gun possession and acts prohibited charges and was sentenced to two two-and-a-half to five years in prison sentences with 252 days of time served credit. The other charges were nolle prossed. In August 2020, Miller made a motion to withdraw the plea due to “ineffective counsel.” The motion was denied in October 2020. Miller was given work release in September 2022.

Miller was accused of felony theft in Hooksett and acts prohibited in Manchester in December 2023. In January 2025, he pleaded guilty to the drug charge and was given a 12-month sentence and $434 fine, both suspended for three years. Miller also pleaded guilty to the theft charge and was given a one-to-three-year sentence, with 91 days of time-served credit, and was ordered to pay $50 in restitution to the victim.

According to superior court records, Gokey was accused of drug possession in Manchester in May 2025. She was given a conditional nolle pross in October 2025.

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