Contoocook Felon Arrested After Crash On Interstate 93 In Bow After K-9 Tracks Him Down

BOW, NH — A felon and habitual offender from Contoocook was arrested by New Hampshire State Police on Tuesday after a crash on Interstate 93.

Around 9:45 p.m., troopers began receiving reports of a crash on the northbound side of the highway in Bow involving two vehicles. The driver of one of the vehicles, identified as Brentt Trudeau, 30, was accused of fleeing the scene.

“(Troopers) were able to hear him running through the woods,” Amber Lagace, a public information officer for the state police, said.

The Troop D troopers requested a K-9 unit, “Jacob,” who tracked Trudeau for about a mile, eventually catching up to him, she noted.

Trudeau was arrested on felony operating as a habitual offender-DWI-subsequent, driving after suspension-subsequent, conduct after an accident, resisting arrest, and open container charges, as well as a stopping-standing-parking prohibited violation. He was released on personal recognizance bail and is due in Merrimack County Superior Court at a later date for arraignment.

Anyone with further information is asked to contact Trooper Kevin McGregor at 603-223-4381 or Kevin.R.McGregor@dos.nh.gov.

Trudeau is a felon due to a criminal threatening conviction in March 2018 after an incident the year before in Goffstown. He was convicted on a drug charge in Wilton in 2010 after an incident in November 2009, when he was a teen. A felony drug charge was also dismissed. Trudeau was accused of two more felony drug charges in May 2019 in Hillsborough, but those counts were later dismissed. He was accused of two controlled drug act-subsequent charges out of Salem in March 2020, which were both nolle prossed. Other charges against him, according to reports on Patch, include stalking, criminal mischief, breach of bail, and a bench warrant between 2014 and 2021, all in Concord.

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