Inmate Failed To Return To Concord Transitional Housing Unit After Employment Security Appointment: NH DOC

CONCORD, NH — Corrections officials are searching for a minimum-security inmate accused of failing to return to a transitional housing unit on Thursday night, according to an alert.

Eric J. Wollen is 61, white, about 5 feet 10 inches tall, and weighs around 200 pounds. He has hazel eyes and blond-gray hair. Wollen signed out of the North End Transitional Housing Unit in Concord around 8:45 a.m. on June 11. He planned on walking to the New Hampshire Employment Security office at 45 South Fruit St. Wollen was expected to return by 2:15 p.m., but was accused of failing to do so, officials said.

“He was last seen wearing a white Aruba Harley Davidson tee-shirt, camouflage shorts, and black boots,” an alert stated. “He left carrying a black backpack and a white Burlington Coat Factory bag.”

Wollen was imprisoned on a habitual offender charge, with an early release date of May 2027 and a maximum-custody release date of May 2030.

Before being incarcerated, Wollen was a resident of Nashua.

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Wollen’s criminal history dates back to the early 1990s, according to superior court records.

Wollen was first charged with habitual offender in October 1992 in Nashua and pleaded guilty to the charge in August 1993. He was imprisoned for 180 days.

In January 1998, Wollen was involved in a crash in Amherst and was charged with being a habitual offender, disobeying an officer, and conduct after an accident. In March 1998, he was charged with bail jumping. In March 1999, Wollen pleaded guilty to the habitual offender charge and was sentenced to up to four years in prison with 289 days of pretrial credit. He also received a suspended sentence for the bail-jumping charge.

Wollen was charged with habitual offender again in Nashua in May 2008. In Nashua in July 2011, he was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated, habitual offender, and reckless conduct-deadly weapon. In August 2012, he was given two two-and-a-half-to-five-year sentences, one suspended for three years, with 19 days of time-served credit, as well as a 12-month sentence and a $750 fine.

In Salem in June 2021, Wollen was charged again with habitual offender as well as driving under the influence and possession of a controlled drug. He pleaded guilty to the habitual offender, DUI, and a lesser charge of controlled premises where drugs are kept in October 2021. Wollen received two 12-month sentences and a $434 fine, all suspended.

In Nashua in June 2022, he was arrested on habitual offender, receiving stolen property, as well as other driving violations. In Allenstown in June 2024, he was accused of being a habitual offender and disobeying an officer. Wollen was charged with habitual offender, drug possession, and other charges in March 2025 in Bedford, and charged by the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Department in May 2025 with habitual offender, interlock device, revocation or suspension, and other charges. In July, August, and December 2025. Wollen pleaded guilty to four habitual offender charges and received two two-to-five-year sentences and one two-and-a-half-to-five-year sentence. He also received four suspended sentences.

Anyone with information on Wollen’s whereabouts should contact Chief Investigator Jason Darrah of the NHDOC Investigations Bureau at 603-848-2569 or call the local police.

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