Manchester Street Drug Raid Leads To Charge Against 6th Person

CONCORD, NH — A drug dealing investigation in a manufactured home park on Manchester Street last year has led to another charge, against a sixth person, a homeless woman with a number of prior drug charges and parole violations. In late November, Concord police, based on tips and complaints on the Concord Regional Crimeline, arrested five people in a drug sweep in the park at 190 Manchester St. near the Pembroke line. Around the same time as those arrests, detectives in the drug enforcement unit began building another case against Darcie Rae Hall, 40, a transient in the Concord area, on methamphetamine sale charge.

In that case, a detective and sergeant met with a cooperating individual who had been working with police and "identified several sources for illegal drugs" in the capital region. One source was a manufactured home in the park near the Pembroke town line, according to an affidavit.

The cooperating individual was asked to reach out to one of the accused drug dealers. The individual said they only had a number to reach Hall and Shayna Kinney, the affidavit stated. Police requested the individual reach out to both of them to purchase meth. But when they tried, the phone number was out of service.

"Following the failed phone call, X advised that X could just show up at the residence and see who was home," the detective wrote. "X stated that someone would be around to sell to X."

The individual was given $300 in prerecorded bills, wired with a monitoring device and then taken to Manchester Street for the buy, according to an affidavit. Just as the cooperating individual had stated, they entered the residence, "met with Hall," and "conducted the drug transaction directly with Hall," for $80 worth of meth, the affidavit alleged. The drug tested field positive for the drug.

The detective confirmed the identity of the person to be Hall based on a prior booking photo and a social media account, the report stated.

An affidavit was issued on Nov. 30, 2019, about a week after the Manchester Street roundup, and Hall was arrested on a single sale of a controlled drug charge on Dec. 9.

Possession Charge At Concord Hospital

Hall also faces a possession charge an incident seven months before the Manchester Street case.

An officer was called to Concord Hospital around 4:15 a.m. on May 5, for a report of drugs found in a patient's room. The officer met with a hospital employee who accused Hall of attempting to flush a piece of plastic down the toilet.

"The nurse grabbed the piece of plastic and notified security," a second affidavit stated.

Inside Hall's belongings, which were inventoried by the nurse, two syringes and a glass meth pipe were found, the officer alleged. When asked if there were any other visitors to the room, the nurse said there was a man present about six hours before. Two days later, Hall was arrested on the possession charge.

During the last six and a half years, according to court records, Hall has been issued more than 15 drug, bail, and violation of probation and parole charges in Cheshire and Merrimack counties. In one of those cases, from 2016 in Troy, she was accused of selling heroin in bags stamped with the words "Donald Trump" on them, according to WMUR-TV.

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