Penacook Woman Accused Dealing Drugs In Bedford; 3 Others Charged

CONCORD, NH — Four people were arrested in Bedford Monday after a traffic stop led to a drug dealing charge, all four facing resisting charges, and a chase through a wetlands area for a suspect with felony warrants.

At just before 4:30 p.m., an officer stopped a vehicle on Route 114 after he "observed suspicious activity" in the parking lot of the Hannaford supermarket. The officer ran a check of the vehicle and found it was owned by Michael David Gruette, 42, of Center Barnstead, and he had two active felony warrants.

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Upon seeing police, Gruette is accused of driving from the area and attempting to flee the scene, running a red light, turning onto White Avenue, but then, reaching a dead end.

"After the vehicle stopped, the four occupants of the vehicle fled on foot," according to Chief John J. Bryfonski of the Bedford Police Department. "Three of the occupants were subsequently taken into custody while Gruette initially eluded officers. Gruette was subsequently located in a swamp area near Cote Lane and taken into custody by Bedford Police via a Bedford Fire Department boat."

Bethany Bishop, 34, of Penacook, one of the passengers in the vehicle, was accused of discarding several items, later determined to be suboxone, Xanax, heroin, and methamphetamine, after they were recovered by police. She was also accused of being in possession of empty plastic baggies and a scale. Bishop was charged with three felony counts of possession of a controlled drug, a single felony count of possession of a controlled drug with intent to distribute, and resisting arrest or detention.

Riley Harris, 26, of Manchester, and Zachery Bishop, 26, of Penacook, were both arrested on resisting arrest or detention charges.

All three were released on personal recognizance bail.

Gruette was charged with reckless operation, transport drugs in a motor vehicle, disobeying an officer, and resisting arrest or detention. He was held on two felony warrants for parole violations.

Gruette is no stranger to police and has a long rap sheet including assault, unauthorized use of a propelled vehicle, meth dealing, meth possession on multiple occasions, cocaine possession, numerous forgery, identity fraud charges, and receiving stolen property charges, breach of bail, and willful concealment charges as well as warrants.

Zachery Bishop, according to reports on Patch, was arrested in 2016 after being accused of recording girls undressing in a changing room in a Bedford Target. He was also arrested in Bedford in January 2012 on unlawful possession of alcohol and possession of controlled/narcotic drugs.

Harris has a criminal history, too. She was indicted in 2017 on criminal mischief, receiving stolen property, possession of a controlled drug-fentanyl, two counts of forgery, theft by deception, all felonies, as well as domestic violence-simple assault.

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