Goffstown Teen Arrested On Aggravated DUI, Other Charges In Dunbarton

CONCORD, NH — A Goffstown teen was arrested and released on personal recognizance Saturday after being accused of impaired driving in Dunbarton.

Just before 5:30 a.m., New Hampshire State Police troopers were sent to a report of a pickup truck stopped in the middle of the southbound side of Stark Highway. When troopers and Dunbarton firefighters arrived, they found a man, who “appeared to be passed out,” behind the wheel of a Ford F-350, ccording to Michal Sventek, a public information officer for state police. The truck’s transmission was in drive and the vehicle doors were locked, he said.

“Troopers proceeded to stage tire deflation devices in front of the pickup and wheel chocks at the back tires,” Sventek said. “The troopers knocked on the driver’s side window and shined a light inside but could not wake the driver up.”

Eventually, he said, troopers broke the passenger side window and began communicating with the driver, Nicholas Walton, 18, of Goffstown.

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“Despite instructions to put the transmission in park,” he said, “the driver started to pull forward and drove over the wheel chock and tire deflation devices, coming to a stop just before hitting one of the first responders’ vehicles.”

After an investigation, Walton was accused of being under the influence. He was arrested and charged with aggravated driving under the influence, disobeying an officer, and transporting alcohol by a minor charges, as well as open container and unlawful possession-intoxication violations. Walton was released on personal recognizance and is due in Concord District Court at a later date.

State troopers were assisted in this case by the Dunbarton Fire Department, Sventek said.

Anyone with information about the case was asked to contact Trooper Brandon Rivard at brandon.j.rivard@dos.nh.gov.

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