Pembroke Man, With Priors, Faces Stolen Gun Charge In Concord

CONCORD, NH — A man from Pembroke, with two convictions on controlled premises where drugs were kept, now faces a stolen firearm charge.

On Jan. 9, police were sent to the Fort Eddy Plaza shopping center after receiving a 911 call from a woman reporting she was with a man who had a stolen firearm. When police arrived to the area of Shaw’s around 2 p.m., they spoke with the woman, who handed them a backpack with a Ruger gun and other items. The woman accused Thomas J. Doheny Jr., 28, of Alexandria Drive in Pembroke, of possessing the weapon and bag.

In an affidavit, earlier in the day, the reporting officer said a relative of Doheny’s had reported his vehicle stolen out of Pembroke. The vehicle was found in Concord at the Residence Inn on Hall Street. The complainant arrived to retain his vehicle and told the officer his gun was missing from the vehicle, the affidavit said.

Doheny, who was sitting inside a Chevrolet SUV, was detained and questioned about the gun, the report said. The relative also gave police recorded consent to search the backpack where they found the firearm.

When asked why he had the stolen gun, Doheny said he was asked to bring it to the woman, the report said. When asked why the relative would report the gun stolen from the vehicle if he asked him to bring it to the woman, Doheny “appeared to be confused,” the affidavit said.

“I don’t know,” Doheny was accused of saying when asked why he had the items again while uttering he believed he needed a lawyer.

Doheny was arrested on a felony receiving stolen property charge and was not questioned further. A bail commissioner told him during processing he was not going to be bailed, and he was taken to the county jail.

Doheny was video arraigned on Jan. 10. After being arraigned in Merrimack County Superior Court, he was released on bail to pretrial services. Doheny is due back in court for a dispositional conference hearing on May 9.

According to superior court records, Doheny was accused of falsifying physical evidence in Allenstown in October 2018 but that charge was nolle prossed later. A felony drug charge out of Concord from October 2020 was also nolle prossed later. In November 2020, he was accused of controlled drug: controlled premises where drugs kept and two felony acts prohibited charges in Pembroke. The two felony charges were nolle prossed 11 months later as part of a guilty plea on the controlled premises charge.

Doheny was also accused of delivery of weapon, contraband, into the Merrimack County Jail in September 2021, but the charge was nolle prossed in May 2022. In June 2022, he pleaded guilty to a second controlled premises charge after being arrested on drug and the premises charge in August 2021 in Concord.

According to posts on Patch, Doheny has been arrested on warrants, criminal trespassing, and alcohol and drug possession charges.

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