Concord Coach Accused Of Raping, Video Recording Girls For Years

CONCORD, NH — A man from Concord, facing sexual assault and child sexual abuse image charges, was accused by police of grooming and being involved with at least six underage teenage girls since 2015, according to police records.

Joshua Pincoske, 47, of North Spring Street in Concord, was arrested on Tuesday on sexual assault, four felony aggravated felonious sexual assault charges, and 51 felony manufacture child sexual abuse image charges after a 13-month investigation by Farmington and Concord police.

The investigation against Pincoske began in December 2020 when Farmington police became aware of two 17-year-old girls reporting “inappropriate sexual contact” with him. The activity started online and led to the transmission of “explicit sexual images” and “in-person sexual activity,” according to an affidavit. Pincoske, according to police, used Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat to communicate with girls and women, and Venmo and Cash App to facilitate financial activity, a report said.

During the course of several months in 2021, Farmington police gathered evidence against Pincoske which led to Concord police requesting a search warrant of his home, cellphones, a computer, and digital storage devices. The New Hampshire Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force as well as a detective from the Merrimack County Sheriff’s Office along with Farmington and Concord police searched his North Spring Street home on Feb. 2.

Pincoske, according to an affidavit, agreed to speak with investigators and was accused of confirming he used social media to communicate with the two girls from Farmington but denied using Cash App for several years. He admitted to requesting sexual images from the girls and touching them but “stated he could not recall if he gave them money,” the affidavit stated.

“Joshua denied knowing that (the girls) were under the age of 18 at the time and stated that he broke off contact when he later found out that they were juveniles,” a detective said, “(and) denied having any other relationships with any females under the age of 18.”

Multiple digital devices were recovered during the search as well as a Colby-Sawyer College bag in his Toyota which had garments that Pincoske said belonged to an adult woman, the detective stated. At the time, Pincoske was the coach of the men’s basketball team at the college.

During the next week, four detectives began combing through the evidence and first observed “dozens” of screenshots from Omegle, a chat website for online sexual encounters.

Detectives accused Pincoske of being in possession of images of a third girl from Concord some that were “benign in nature” while others appeared to show a sexual assault taking place in 2017.

On a Samsung cellphone, an affidavit said Pincoske had “hundreds of images/videos” of a fourth girl, from Concord, who was under 16, who was known to police to be a “high-risk teenager struggling with personal issues.” There were 10 series of photos or videos documenting sexual acts with the girl for 11 months in 2019. Geolocation data connected the photos and videos to a number of locations around the city, including locations on Loudon Road and Pincoske’s home, the affidavit said. In some of the photos, the girl was wearing clothing from her school which would indicate she was under 18, the report stated.

“This adds credibility to the belief that Joshua was fully aware of the girl’s age,” the report said.

On one of Pincoske’s cellphones, police said he was engaged in online conversations with “dozens of apparent female teenagers over the past several months,” using Snapchat, Instagram, and Kik. In most of the interactions, Pincoske “openly identified himself” and provided personal details.

Police accused Pincoske of interacting with a 13-year-old girl between August 2018 and Jan. 30 on Snapchat. The conversation, the detective wrote, “appeared to document Joshua ‘grooming’” the girl across several months — although most of the conversation was about activities at the middle school she was attending at the time. The girl was also known to Concord police to be a “high-risk teenager struggling with personal issues.”

Detectives, however, found one part of the conversation which appeared to be speaking about images and keeping them a secret, the report stated, although police were unable to find pictures or videos on Snapchat. The girl, during one part of the conversation, requested Pincoske purchase a pregnancy test.

“Additional messages indicated that (she) was pregnant though there was no apparent discussion of the potential father’s identity,” the affidavit said.

The detective noted they were still investigating the relationship with the fifth girl.

In another conversation on Kik, from Jan. 19 to Feb. 1, Pincoske was accused of sharing sexual images of a younger female with a man. He was accused of saying, “she's 15 but a smoke show,” and admitting to being attracted to girls between 12 and 16, the report said.

The detective, at the end of the affidavit, called the investigation “preliminary in nature” and “additional criminal acts were observed” involving the fourth girl which was not documented in the initial affidavit. The evidence pointed to a "pattern of criminal sexual acts from at least 2015 through 2020," the report said. The affidavit also stated there were “numerous additional sexual photos/videos involving as-yet-unidentified female parties who may or may not be juveniles.”

‘Deeply Troubled’ By Allegations

The Crisis Center of Central New Hampshire stated Thursday the org was “deeply troubled” by the accusations against Pincoske and is available to offer support for victims as well as the staff and students at Colby-Sawyer College.

“The sexual abuse charges brought against Mr. Pincoske date back years and may have widespread consequences,” Jessica Vaughn-Martin, CCCNH’s executive director, said. “We are here to support the community and provide services to those who need them.”

Any county resident, who may have been affected by the case, can call the center’s hotline at 866-841-6229 to speak with an advocate 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Victims do not have to be in crisis to call.

Anyone outside of the Merrimack County area can call New Hampshire’s Statewide Domestic and Sexual Violence Helpline at 1-866-644-3574 to connect with a crisis service in their area, Vaughn-Martin said.

Crimeline Seeks Tips About Case

Police are asking anyone with information pertaining to Pincoske to contact Detective Brendan Ryder of the Concord Police Department at 603-225-8600.

Tips can also be submitted anonymously through the Concord Regional Crimeline at 603-226-3100 or online at concordregionalcrimeline.com.

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