‘Anonymous Tip’ Leads To Capture Of Fugitive Sex Offender From NH

CONCORD, NH — Another New Hampshire Fugitive of the Week was captured this weekend due to a tip from the public, according to Brandon Wilson of the U.S. Marshals Service. Christopher Michael Smith, 45, was arrested without incident by members of the Nashua Police Department on Aug. 12, 2017, on an outstanding arrest warrant for a sex offender registration violation and sales of a controlled drug-methamphetamine. Smith, according to Wilson, was arrested on Hollis Street after police received an “anonymous tip” that he was taking at a home there.

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“The Nashua Police Department acted quickly on the tip and was able to arrest Smith without incident,” Wilson stated. (For more information on this and other neighborhood stories, subscribe to Concord NH Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts.)

Smith is required to register as a sex offender due to two 1994 convictions in Strafford County for aggravated felonious sexual assault on a victim under 18. The warrants were issued by the Concord Police Department.

According to the state’s online sex offender registry, Smith was convicted on both aggravated felonious sexual assault and attempted aggravated felonious sexual assault in March 1994. That same year, he was also convicted of witness tampering. Back in February 1991, Smith was convicted of simple assault. He was convicted on an escape charge in January 2000 and duty to report in July 2016.

Smith also lived for a time in Florida, according to Florida’s sex offender registry, and was convicted of failure to comply in March 2010.