Penacook Mom, with Her Baby, Busted for Heroin

A Concord woman with a slew of arrests during the past few years was arrested again last night in the Queen City, along with another man after police allegedly caught them with heroin.

Haley Gadwah, 23, of Penacook, was arrested on Dec. 10, 2015, and charged with possession of a controlled drug (heroin) and endangering the welfare of a child. Also arrested was Robert Rainville, 28, of Lebanon, who was charged with possession of a controlled drug (heroin), falsifying physical evidence and endangering the welfare of a child.

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At around 7:30 p.m. last night, Manchester’s Special Enforcement Division Detectives reportedly observed a man and a woman in a vehicle that was parked in the Rite Aid parking lot on Elm Street. According to Sgt. Michael Biron of the Manchester Police Department, “their attention was drawn to the male driver as he was holding a lighter and beverage cap.”

The man was then “observed holding a syringe in his hand indicative of drug activity,” while the woman “acted as a lookout,” according to the report.

The detectives went over to the vehicle and spoke with the man, Rainville, who was arrested. Gadwah was also arrested and her 5-month-old child, who was in the backseat of the vehicle, was taken into protective custody. Child endangerment charges were added to their dockets.

Both Gadwah and Rainville will be arraigned today in Manchester District Court.

According to scanner chatter in Concord, NH DCYF was at an apartment on Summer Street in Penacook this morning picking up clothing and other items for the baby while the child is in state custody.

Previous troubles

During the last few years, Gadwah has been no stranger to police, arrested on numerous charges in Concord as well as Manchester, where she has lived before.

In July 2013, Gadwah was arrested for theft at the Walmart on Loudon Road. Later in the year, while living in the Queen City, she was arrested again for incidents at Walmart in Concord, including three counts of criminal trespass and two counts of theft. In December 2014, she, and her husband and baby’s father, Dwan Anderson, a kidnapping convict, were arrested on a warrant.

This year, in April, she was arraigned in Manchester District Division court for false report to law enforcement after allegedly telling Manchester Police that her previous boyfriend, Christopher Martinez, was out of town on the day he was accused of shooting a woman on Merrimack Street, according to the New Hampshire Union Leader. She was also arrested in May on two counts of bail jumping, for allegedly missing court in January.

According to court documents and arrest reports, Anderson was arrested on a gun charge and tampering with witnesses and informants earlier this year for allegedly communicating from prison with Gadwah while police were investigating a case involving Backpage escorting and drugs at the Best Western on Hall Street in Concord.

In October, after Patch published the report and posted it on Facebook, Gadwah took to the social media site and offer a number of defensive comments, stating that the police were dramatizing the entire incident and denied the transcripts recording by the New Hampshire State Prison. She reportedly denied being involved in prostitution and stated that she and Anderson were just trying to help a friend get clean.