Crime & Safety

Slow Snow Removal Cleanup Causes Man to Pull Gun on DPW Worker: Cops

Police in Goffstown are asking for the public's help in identifying a man in an alleged criminal threat incident yesterday morning.

GOFFSTOWN, NH — Goffstown Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who may have been involved in an alleged criminal threatening incident on Friday morning. According to police, at just after 9 a.m. on Dec. 30, 2016, officers received a call from a department of public works employee who alleged being threatened by a gun.

“At the time of the incident, the town employee was in the process of snow removal operations which caused a slight backup in traffic,” according to Sergeant Geoffrey Pinard of the Goffstown Police Department. “It was reported that a male subject, operating an 1999 to early 2000s silver Dodge pickup truck, displayed a firearm in the direction of the employee and told him that he was going to shoot him.”

The man was described as white, in his early 40s, with a goatee.

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Police checked the area and were not able to locate the suspect vehicle. The vehicle was last seen heading toward Manchester on Mast Road from the area of College Road.

Police circulated a screenshot of this security footage of the pickup truck.

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Anyone with information about this incident or who may have witnessed it is being asked to contact the Goffstown Police Department at 603-497-4858.

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