Homeless Woman Arrested Numerous Charges After DWI Crash

DUNBARTON, NH — A homeless woman now located in Concord was arrested on Wednesday on numerous charges after allegedly driving drunk in Dunbarton and Goffstown and crashing her car twice, according to police. Laura Fortin was arrested on Sept. 14, 2016, and charged with driving while intoxicated, conduct after an accident, driving without giving proof, driving after suspension-subsequent offense, driving with suspended registrations, and simple assault on a law enforcement officer.

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According to Sgt. Chris Remillard of the Dunbarton Police Department, both Goffstown and Dunbarton officers were sent to a report of a hit-and-run incident involving a mailbox on Twist Hill Road. The property owner reportedly followed the vehicle into Goffstown and back into Dunbarton where the vehicle reportedly crashed while pulling into a driveway on Montalona Road.

“(The) on scene investigation revealed that the operator of the vehicle, Laura Fortin, a homeless woman from Concord, was intoxicated,” Remillard alleged. “After Fortin was taken into custody by Dunbarton Police, she assaulted a Dunbarton Police Officer by throwing her shoulder into his chest.”

Her vehicle sustained “extensive damage” and was towed from the scene. She was also transported to the Merrimack County House of Corrections and held on $2,500 cash bail. Fortin was arraigned yesterday and is currently being held on cash bail pending a trial management conference.

Dunbarton Police also learned that she was arrested on Aug. 23, by Concord Police, on both willful concealment and possession prescription drugs.

“The investigation is on-going and additional charges may be filed,” Remillard stated.

Fortin has been arrested a number of times in Concord, according to reports posted on Patch.

In August 2015, she was arrested for simple assault and domestic violence-simple assault after a fight in the driveway of a Concord Street home. In October 2015, she was arrested on an assault charge and then a default or breach of bail charge after allegedly coming into contact with the victim of the assault charge.