Homeless Felon, Previously Convicted Of Burglary, Accused Of Burglarizing Concord Market Basket For Ciggies

CONCORD, NH — An unhoused member of the Concord community, with dozens of prior arrests, is facing a new charge after being accused of burglarizing Market Basket on Storrs Street for cigarettes.

Kevin Gobeil, 31, a homeless man now located in Concord or Manchester, was arrested on May 8 on a felony burglary charge.

Officers were sent to the Storrs Street Market Basket for a report of a burglary around 6 a.m. on Sept. 4, 2025. A store employee reported a window was smashed near the cigarette area and cigarettes were taken. The employee stated around 4 a.m., they received an alarm notification. Two officers were also sent to the store about a minute later, and after finding the building secured, they cleared the area.

The reporting officer viewed security video footage from the store and saw a man with a bag in his hand, smashing a windowpane, entering the store, pushing a poster out of the way, rummaging through the cigarette counter, and putting ciggies into the bag, according to an affidavit. The suspect was in the store about 30 seconds, the report stated. The man wore a mask, dark gloves, and a hat, and was wearing light colored pants. His direction of travel after the burglary was unknown, the report stated.

About $690 worth of Marlboro Red and Newport 100s were stolen, according to the store employee.

About three and a half hours later, the reporting officer returned to the store after a cleaner found a blue pipe wrench, underneath a promotional sign, that did not belong to the store.

The officer checked video footage from the Storrs Street Parking Garage, across the street from the store, which captured a man on a bicycle at 3:49 a.m. on Storrs Street. The man rode the bike into the garage, concealing his face as he passed one of the cameras. The man was holding “a thin, blue colored item in his right hand,” the officer wrote, which appeared to match the pipe wrench found at the store. The man was also wearing black gloves, a hoodie, light blue jeans, and Air Jordan Nikes. There also appeared to be a light colored mark or rip in the man’s jeans. The surveillance footage tracked the man in the lot.

The officer examined earlier footage and spotted the man on the Market Basket side of the street speaking with an unknown woman around 3:46 a.m. The man then rides the bike in circles.

Around 3:57 a.m., cameras pick up activity at the store, specifically a light area of the windowpane, which appears to be a poster being forced out of the way by the suspect in the Market Basket video. The footage lasted two minutes. Concord police then show up at the scene.

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The next day, the reporting officer was working a midnight overtime patrol shift when another officer encountered Gobeil near the dumpsters at the Durgin Block-School Street Garage just before 3 a.m. The officer knew him from “multiple prior police-related contacts” and knew he was out on parole after being convicted of felony receiving stolen property. The officer reviewed some of the footage from the garage and noticed Gobeil was wearing light blue jeans with the same thigh marking as the suspect in the video, which appeared to match the rip in the jeans of the suspect from the previous day. His physical descriptors were also the same as the suspect, the report said.

On Sept. 9, 2025, officers were patrolling the train tracks behind Gas Street when they encountered another unhoused member of the Concord community and struck up a conversation. The reporting officer asked if they knew who burglarized Market Basket earlier in the week and they accused Gobeil.

“(The man) informed me that Kevin told them in the days prior to the burglary that (Kevin) was going to do it,” the officer wrote. “(The man) told me that Kevin had done this before.”

When asked whether they knew what was stolen, the unhoused member of the Concord community believed it was Marlboro Reds and Newport cigarettes, according to the report. Gobeil was accused of giving some of the ciggies away and then taking the rest to Manchester, where Gobeil often stays. The man said he had a black satchel, which was often locked, the report stated.

A similar burglary was investigated in November 2020 at Market Basket involving a man on a bike who smashed glass and stole multiple cartons of cigarettes.

Later in the day, one of the officers with the reporting officer spotted Gobeil on Water Street and both officers tracked him down on South Main Street.

“While I was speaking with Kevin,” the officer wrote, “I noted that he had a pack of Newport cigarettes in his hand.”

Gobeil was also carrying a satchel with a combination lock, the report stated, and when he put his cigarettes away, the officer saw a pair of black gloves inside.

The officers told him they needed to speak with him at police headquarters, but it was voluntary. Gobeil agreed, was patted down, his personal items placed in the trunk of the cruiser, and taken to HQ.

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During the interview, Gobeil was told he was not being arrested. He was asked if he knew where he was on Sept. 4, and he said he didn’t know, according to the report. He said ever since returning to Concord, he had been at his camp behind the methadone clinic on Hall Street, the officer wrote. When asked if he knew why he was being asked about something happening on Sept. 4, Gobeil said he had no idea and had heard “nothing on the Patch.” When told there was an incident at Market Basket, he said, “without hesitation,” the officer wrote, “the window.” Gobeil was accused of telling the officer he saw it board up the previous morning, the affidavit said. The officer accused him of being “inconsistent with his statement,” and Gobeil said, “You think I did it?” The officer countered there was video footage that matched his description and that someone had “ratted him out” on the burglary, the report stated. Gobeil said everyone hated him and they were just saying he did something, the officer noted.

Later in the conversation, Gobeil said when he was a drug addict and a criminal, he would bury cigarettes and dig them up for future use, as well as other comments, including his own knowledge others in the unhoused Concord community were saying he stole cigarettes.

The officer said his comments were significant, since stolen cigarettes were never mentioned during the interview by the officer.

When asked why he would say the burglary involved cigarettes when previously saying he had no idea about the incident, “Kevin paused and then proceeded to say, ‘I hadn’t heard anything from the Patch, I said’.”

Gobeil was transported to the Belknap County House of Corrections, where he was held on a second violation of probation or parole charge connected to a drug conviction in 2022 in Gilmanton.

A warrant was issued for Gobeil’s arrest on April 27 and he was charged on May 8 and appeared in Concord District Court on May 11 for arraignment. He entered no plea.

Gobeil has a probable cause hearing on June 22.

According to court records and Patch reports, Gobeil’s criminal history dates back more than a decade.

In April and August 2015, Gobeil was accused of burglary following incidents in Laconia. The April charge was dismissed without prejudice nine months later. He pleaded guilty to the August charge in June 2016, was sentenced to two to four years in the New Hampshire State Prison for Men, and ordered to pay $274 in restitution.

In September 2020, Gobeil was accused of hosting a drug den in Franklin. He pleaded guilty to a controlled drug: controlled premises where drugs kept charge in June 2021 and received a 12-month sentence, suspended for two years.

Gobeil was accused of attempted theft by deception in Bow in May 2021 and felon in possession of a dangerous weapon-machete and resisting arrest or detention charges in Bow in October 2021. The latter charges were nolle prossed in September 2023. The next day, he pleaded guilty to the attempted theft charge and received a six-month sentence, suspended for two years, with three days of time served.

More charges occurred in 2022: A theft charge out of Concord in February and acts prohibited charges in Bow in June.

In February 2023, Gobeil was charged with controlled drug act and driving after revocation or suspension in Gilmanton from an incident a few months before. He was also charged with receiving stolen property in Concord in June 2023. In July 2023, he pleaded guilty to the drug charge and received a 12-month sentence, suspended for 335 days for two years, with nine days credit. He was also fined $434, but it was suspended for two years.

In September 2023, Gobeil pleaded guilty to one of the two acts prohibited charges and received a 12-month sentence with 59 days of time served credit. He was also fined $434, but it was suspended for two years. The other charges were nolle prossed. He also pleaded guilty to the stolen property charge and received a 12-month sentence.

Staying on the straight and narrow proved difficult for Gobeil: He was accused of violating probation in January 2024 on the Concord and Gilmanton charges. He pleaded guilty three months later and was sentenced to a year in jail, suspended for one year on the Concord charge and 12 months, deferred for six months, on the Gilmanton charge. Multiple hearings were held on the deferred sentence for about a year. In May 2025, he pleaded guilty to the violation of probation or parole Concord charge and received a six-month jail sentence with 110 days of time-served credit. Gobeil pleaded guilty to the probation or parole violation charge in June 2025 and received another suspended sentence.

Gobeil was chased down again on another violation of probation or parole on the Gilmanton charge in December 2025. He pleaded guilty to the charge on May 18 and received a nine-month jail sentence with 109 days of time served credit.

Other arrests include warrant arrests, forgery, criminal trespass, possession of fentanyl, possession of meth, possession of buprenorphine, driving after revocation, resisting arrest or detention, and failure to appear in court.

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