Crime & Safety
$2,500 Reward Posted For Escaped New Hampshire Armed Career Criminal
The U.S. Marshals Service is searching for felon Peter John Dibiaso after he fled from the Belknap County Jail on Monday.
CONCORD, NH — The U.S. Marshals Service and the Belknap County Sheriff’s Office are searching for a prisoner who escaped from the Belknap County Jail on Monday.
A $2,500 reward is being offered for information directly leading to the location and arrest of Peter John Dibiaso, who was being held at the jail on a pre-trial status on armed career criminal, criminal threatening with a deadly weapon, stalking, and operating a motor vehicle without a license charges. Sometime on Monday evening, he fled from the prison, and officials have been unable to find him.
Dibiaso is 57, white, about 5 feet, 8 inches tall, weighs around 180 pounds, and has blue eyes and blond hair. Jeffrey White, a deputy marshal, said he had several tattoos on his right hand, left forearm, chest, back, left ankle, and left shoulder.
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During the past 15 years, according to superior court records, Dibiaso has been involved in several criminal and civil complaints.
The criminal charges include burglary and felon in possession of dangerous weapon convictions out of Sanbornton in July 2008, and later, a violation of probation or parole charge; simple assault and witness tampering guilty verdicts after a jury trial after being arrested in Alton on nine counts of second-degree, simple assault, and witness tampering in January 2011; and three attempted improper influence charges out of Concord from March 2011 which were later dismissed.
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Dibiaso also has two active controlled drug possession and two felon in possession of a dangerous weapon charges out of Bow from November 2020.
Anyone with information regarding Dibiaso is asked to call the Belknap County Sheriff’s Office at 603-527-5454 or report any information to the nearest USMS DISTRICT OFFICE at 603-225-1632, or call 1-877-WANTED-2, or submit an anonymous WEB-TIP, or TEXT NHTIP with any information to TIP411.
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