Concord Felon Arrested On Death Resulting Overdose Charge

CONCORD, NH — A nine-month investigation into a fatal overdose in Penacook last year has led to felony charges against a felon with prior drug convictions.

On Sept. 5, 2022, Concord police and fire and rescue teams were sent to an overdose report on Mayflower Drive. The victim was found and taken to Concord Hospital, where they died.

Police, according to Deputy Chief John Thomas, performed “an extensive investigation” of the incident across many months. Fentanyl was presumed to be the drug involved in the case, he said.

The death and investigation led the department to charge Timothy Byron, 35, of Concord with the sale of a controlled drug-death resulting and falsifying physical evidence charges, both felonies. A warrant was issued against him on May 22 and Hooksett police arrested him on the warrant on June 5.

Byron was processed and released on personal recognizance and is due in Merrimack County Superior Court on June 22.

According to superior court records, Byron is a felon due to a criminal mischief conviction in July 2011 after an incident in Belmont in April of that year. In June 2017, he was arrested in Concord on three felony acts prohibited charges and a carrying and selling weapons count. While in Merrimack County Jail in Boscawen in February and July 2017, he was accused of delivery of weapon-contraband and pleaded guilty to both charges as well as two of the acts prohibited charges in October 2017. Byron was charged with acts prohibited again in June 2018, based on an incident in August 2017 out of Tilton. He pleaded guilty to the charge in January 2019. Byron was also charged with acts prohibited in early April after an incident in Concord. He has a dispositional conference meeting on Aug. 11 in Merrimack County Superior Court.

Byron, who has previously lived in Canterbury and Nashua and also been homeless in the Concord area, has also been arrested on criminal threatening, criminal mischief, false imprisonment, stalking, violation of a protective order, domestic violence, vandalism, and breach of bail charges and warrants, according to posts on Patch.

Police were assisted with the investigation of Byron by the NH Chief Medical Examiner’s Office and the NH Attorney General’s Office.

Anyone with information about this investigation was asked to contact Detective Paul Shaughnessy of the Criminal Investigations Division 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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