Guilty Pleas Lead to Jail Time for Three in Kidnapping, Assault Case

CONCORD, NH - Three people have pled guilty in Merrimack County Court to various charges after kidnapping, threatening, and assaulting a man in Dunbarton and another man in Goffstown last year.

Jayson Setoute, pictured right, Isaiah Williams, pictured lower left, and Alissa Chandler reached plea agreements with prosecutors that will lead to jail time for all three, according to Sgt. Chris Remillard of the Dunbarton Police Department.

They were all charged with various crimes including kidnapping, criminal threatening with a deadly weapon, criminal restraint, obstructing the report of a crime or injury, simple assault, and accomplice/criminal liability charges.

Setoute and Williams will spend seven to 17 years in prison; Chandlet will be inside from 3.5 to seven years, according to police. They were also all sentenced recently in Hillsborough County Superior Court after reaching plea deals for the Goffstown assault. Setoute faces 15 to 60 years in prison while Williams is looking at 15 to 75 years. Chandler was sentenced to four to eight years in Hillsborough. The sentences will run concurrently, according to Remillard.

According to police, on March 8, 2015, all three drove to a home in Dunbarton with the intent of kidnapping an individual and then using that individual to draw out another individual in Goffstown. Chandler dropped off Setoute and Williams at the end of a roadway and while armed with a handgun and baseball bat, lured the victim into the vehicle. The vehicle was then assaulted and forced to hand over his cellphone, according to police.

Chandler then drove Setoute and Williams, along with the kidnapped victim, to Goffstown. From there, Setoute and Williams “ambushed and brutally assaulted” the Goffstown man, Remillard stated. Setoute and Williams used the Dunbarton man’s cell to draw out the Goffstown man.