Former New Hampshire Fugitives Are Now In Custody, NH Department Of Corrections Says

CONCORD, NH — Two recently New Hampshire Department of Corrections fugitives are now in custody.

Coreen Blaire Gagne, 23, was arrested Friday by Franklin police after an attempted motorcycle stop on Hill Road around 1 a.m. Police, in a press release on Facebook, which has since been taken down, said the driver of the motorcycle, who also had a passenger, fled the scene, driving into Tilton. The motorcycle crashed in the area of Laconia Road and Church Street.

The driver of the motorcycle, identified later as Brandon Janak, 29, also a previous fugitive of the week, had active warrants and was accused of possessing “a large quantity of suspected methamphetamine and fentanyl” and cash. Gagne, police said, was a passenger on the motorcycle — which was reported stolen out of Farmington.

Both Gagne and Janak were taken to the hospital with injuries.

Suspected meth, fentanyl, and cash were possessed by Brandon Janak, according to Franklin police, after a stolen motorcycle crash in Tilton on June 23. Credit: Franklin Police Department

Gagne, who was featured in early June, was wanted on probation violations from an underlying felony conviction on a controlled drug-premises charge. She is being held without bail in the Belknap County Jail.

The public information officer for the NH DOC said Janak was also removed from the fugitive wanted list “as his whereabouts are known and he is not a threat to the public.”

Ashley Seleen Hodgdon, 32, was wanted on a parole violation as well as second-degree assault and bodily injury to a child under 13. She was featured in late March.

According to the department, she was arrested earlier this month by the Rock Hill Police Department in South Carolina. Hodgdon was extradited to New Hampshire.

According to superior court records, Gagne was charged with two felony counts of controlled drug act in February 2020 connected to a June 2019 incident in Laconia. After agreeing to a plea in May 2021, the charges were nolle prossed.

Gagne was offered a plea deal in March 2021 on a transport drugs in a motor vehicle charge in Belknap County after being charged with felony drug possession in Laconia after an incident in October 2019. She was found in violation of probation or parole in June 2022.

She was also arrested in Concord on March 30, 2022, on two robbery, two assault, and two theft charges after an incident in February 2022. She was offered a deal that lessened the charges to theft by unauthorized taking and simple assault, which she pleaded guilty to in November 2022.

Hodgdon was accused of parole violations after being released from jail after being convicted of second-degree assault, with bodily injury, against a child under 13 in Rockingham County Superior Court after an October 2015 incident in Deerfield. The victim was beaten with a broom. She was paroled in November 2018 and accused of immediately leaving in a sober facility.

Officials said she fled to Florida, where she was arrested again in Polk County on possession of cocaine, drug paraphernalia, providing false information to law enforcement, and resisting arrest.

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