Homeless Concord Sex Offender Faces Second Indecent Exposure-Lewdness Charge

CONCORD, NH — A homeless sex offender is facing a second indecent exposure and lewdness charge, a felony, after being accused of walking around Downtown Concord without any pants on.

Just before 4 a.m. on Aug. 18, a police sergeant was on Loudon Road, heading west, when they saw a man walking without any pants on. The man was wearing only a tanktop, and his “genitals and buttocks were fully exposed,” a police report said. The sergeant called an officer to the scene, and they identified the man as Joshua White, 43, a homeless man now located in Concord, due to previous interactions and booking photos. The officer confirmed he was not wearing pants and appeared to be using a piece of cardboard to cover himself.

When asked where his pants and underwear were, White said, somewhere “over there,” while pointing south toward North Main Street, an affidavit said.

“Joshua,” the officer wrote, “rambled incoherently about how he was told by a higher power to walk in the street naked.”

Another officer arrived, and White was arrested on a misdemeanor indecent exposure and lewdness charge, and was taken into protective custody due to his statements, the report said.

About nine hours later, a detective told the officer to elevate the charge to a felony due to White previously being convicted of indecent exposure and lewdness in Merrimack County Superior Court in December 2019. He was also a sex offender due to a felonious sexual assault conviction out of Strafford County Superior Court in August 2005.

“I later reviewed Joshua’s sexual offender registration packet, which shows him to be a sexual offender who is required to register as a result of an offense against a child,” the officer wrote.

According to superior court records, the case was in Somersworth and involved three charges.

An affidavit was posted on Aug. 25 and a warrant was issued against White on Sept. 8. White was arrested later that day.

A dispositional hearing was held in Merrimack County Superior Court on Wednesday. White is due back in court for arraignment on Oct. 6.

White is no stranger to police, having been arrested repeatedly in Concord and New Hampshire.

White is a felon due to a drug case in Dover from April 2002 that he was later convicted of in his early 20s. He was convicted on a theft charge out of Somersworth in October 2004.

In February 2012, White was accused of robbery, conspiracy, criminal liability, and criminal trespass charges in Concord and pleaded down to the conspiracy and trespass charges.

Five years later, after failing to inform police in Concord of his sex offender registration, he was convicted on a single count. A year later, he would be convicted of violating parole or parole.

White would be convicted on six drug charges and two bail charges in August 2018 after incidents in Concord. He would be convicted again on four drug charges and the first indecent exposure charge in December 2019 after incidents in Concord. Receiving stolen property and drug penalty charges in Concord and drug charges, including two possession-sale of narcotics charges from Bow, were dropped.

White was also found guilty of a second duty to report charge out of Concord in June 2021.

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