Homeless Man Charged With Prowling At Concord’s Smile Building

CONCORD, NH — A local homeless man, with a history of drug abuse and prior criminal activity in the capital city, was arrested again earlier this month. Ryan Daniel Sullivan, 23, a homeless man now located in Concord, was arrested at 7:26 p.m. on May 3, 2019, and charged with loitering or prowling and breach of bail conditions. At just before 7 p.m., officers were sent to the Smile Building on South Main Street for a report of a homeless man wandering around the building trying to open doors.

A woman who was cleaning the building called police after she saw a suspect “pulling on doors of closed businesses within the building,” according to an affidavit. She reported that the man had pulled on the doors of businesses on the second and fifth floors. The businesses, she noted, required a swipe card to enter them.

The officer went to the second floor and spotted a man matching the description.

“This male attempted to walk past me with fists clenched,” the reporting officer alleged. “I grabbed onto the male’s left wrist, put his arms behind his back, and detained him in handcuffs.”

The officer recognized the man as Sullivan from prior incidents, “extensive contact” with police, and that he was “a known drug user.” The officer asked him what he was doing in the building and he reportedly didn’t respond and remained silent.

“Based on my training and experience, I believed Sullivan to be under the influence of an unknown substance (believed to be methamphetamine),” the reporting officer wrote. “Sullivan had a ‘thousand yard state,’ gave one word answers, and did not appear to fully grasp the situation he was in.”

The officer asked Sullivan if he was trying to find a place to stay and he reportedly nodded in the affirmative.

Sullivan was arrested and the woman working in the building confirmed that the man in custody was the one she saw pulling on doors.

A check revealed that he was arrested earlier that day on an electronic bench warrant for disorderly conduct and was required to stay out of trouble while he was out on bail so he was held without bail.

Previously, according to reports on Patch, Sullivan has been arrested on felony possession of controlled drugs, disorderly conduct, simple assault, attempt to commit simple assault, criminal threatening, resisting arrest or detention, prowling, and theft.

Editor's note: This post was derived from info supplied by the Concord Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction. This link explains the name removal request process for New Hampshire’s Patch police reports.