Merrimack County Sheriff’s Office, Marshals Track Down Attempted Murder Suspect In Mass.

BOSCAWEN, NH — An attempted murder suspect from New Hampshire, indicted on several charges and missing for around nine months, has been found and arrested after a lengthy investigation by the Merrimack County Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Marshals Service.

David Makin, 51, of Manchester, a felon with a lengthy criminal history, was indicted on attempted murder, reckless conduct, three first-degree assault, and two second-degree assault charges after being accused of assaulting two people at a campground in Canterbury in August 2022 with a guitar, his fists, and a rock. He was also accused of threatening to kill them. One of the injuries was so brutal it involved vision loss with one of the victims, according to the indictment. Makin, according to marshals, was originally charged with domestic violence, but the counts were elevated after the investigation was completed.

Makin was indicted on the charges in January 2023. He was arraigned in February of that year. A warrant was issued for his arrest after failing to appear at a dispositional conference in May 2023. According to court information, two different lawyers have withdrawn from the case.

Makin was found in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on Thursday, according to Merrimack County Sheriff David Croft. He was held on a fugitive from justice charge, awaiting extradition.

Croft commended “the hardworking members” of the department as well as Marshals for locating “the potentially dangerous individual.” Makin will be arraigned Friday.

“I am very proud of the men and women on my staff,” he said, “and the staff of the U.S. Marshals Office for their hard work and dedication in their daily roles in locating and removing dangerous criminals from our cities and towns.”

Andrew Grillo, of the U.S. Marshals Service, said, “Makin’s ability to avoid these charges ended yesterday,” due to the work of all involved.

Makin, according to superior court records, has a criminal history dating back nearly three decades.

In the mid-1990s, he was arrested and convicted of habitual offender and escape.

About four years later, he was charged with habitual offender in Raymond and pleaded guilty to the charge about two years later.

In 2001, he was charged and pleaded guilty to habitual offender and receiving stolen property in Manchester and was charged with receiving stolen property out of Salem. The Salem charge was nolle prossed five months later.

Two years after those cases, he was charged with habitual offender in Manchester twice. On one, he was found guilty. According to court records, he was also known as “David A. Lucchesi.”

In 2004, Makin was charged with carrying a weapon without a license, reckless conduct, and two felon in possession of a dangerous weapon charges after incidents in Epping. He pleaded guilty in June 2005 to all but one of the possession charges.

More habitual offender charges followed in Salem in February 2015 and March 2015, Derry in May 2015, along with a simple assault charge, and Rockingham County in December 2015, and guilty pleas followed.

In Raymond, in July 2019, he was arrested again on a habitual offender charge but was found not guilty by a jury in January 2020.

Makin was arrested on felony habitual offender, driving under the influence, conduct after an accident, and felony marijuana possession charges in Manchester in February 2005. He pleaded guilty to the habitual offender and DUI charges a few months later.

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